Succession of Smith

HIGGINS, Justice.

Plaintiffs brought this action against defendants, as legatees, to have the olographic will of their deceased paternal grandfather declared null and void, in so far as it attempted to disinherit their father, and for the annulment of a purported act of renunciation by their father of his father’s succession, and to be recognized as the forced heirs of their deceased father, entitled as such to one-third of their paternal grandfather’s estate, and for an accounting to. them by the legatees, under the olographic will, of their father’s legitime.

The defendants filed a plea of…