Crumpacker v. Spalding

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Maurice L. Crumpacker, alleging that he was an adopted child of Milo and Dora Spalding, both deceased, instituted this suit to be recognized as a forced heir of Mr. and Mrs. Spalding and to be decreed the owner of an undivided one-sixth interest in their estates, a tract of land in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. Named as defendants were the children and grandchildren of the Spaldings.

The lower court denied plaintiff’s prayer to be recognized as an adopted child and forced heir of the Spaldings, and dismissed his suit. The Court of Appeal affirmed this judgment (126…