Succession of Pruitt

JaGOTHARD, Judge.

Appellant Carolyn Van Burén appeals a January 31, 1996 judgment of the district court dismissing her motion to be recognized as an heir of the late Francis M. Pruitt. Van Burén appeals, raising one assignment of error, namely that the trial court erred in concluding that Mrs. Van Burén had not met her burden of proof.

FACTS

Francis Pruitt was bom on August 3,1919 in Tipton, Tennessee by midwifery.1 She never married and had no children. For twenty years she lived at 2662-1/2 New Orleans Street in Harvey. She worked for the State of Louisiana, retiring on a state pension in…