Gauff v. Johnson

Appellants are the surviving sisters and a surviving niece of Lettie Mack, wife of Harry Johnson. They appeal from a judgment rejecting their demands to annul, in part, the clause in the will of the decedent, wherein she instituted her husband as her universal legatee. Their contention is that the universal legatee was living in open concubinage with the testatrix, and therefore, as to him, under Civ. Code, art. 1481, the will is invalid except for one-tenth of the movables belonging to the decedent’s estate. The defense is that the appellee was not the paramour, but the putative husband in…