Succession of Simonette Reason Falls

DISSENTING OPINION OF

ELLIOTT, J.

As above stated we first held, by a majority opinion, that Mary Bingham had been called by the law ■ to the succession of Simonette Reason Falls, her natural child, to the exclusion of Joseph Falls, her husband.

That acknowledgment’ by “a declaration executed before a notary public in the presence of two witnesses” was not necessary; and that acknowledgment by the registration of the birth or baptism of her child was not necessary.

The opinion was based on the belief that Taylor vs. Allen, 151 La. 82, 91 South. 635, and Murdock vs. Potter, 155 La. 145, 99 South.…