Maggio v. Papa

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is a suit by two daughters, as heirs of their deceased mother and sister, against their father, to be recognized as co-owners with him of certain community property, for a monied judgment covering their share of the property sold by him, and for an accounting of their pro rata of the rents he received, he having lost the usufructuary rights as surviving spouse by entering a second marriage.

The petitioners allege that their father and mother were married in 1909, and that there were three children born of the union, the petitioners and their deceased sister; that their…