Succession of Hollier

ON REHEARING

SANDERS, Justice.

We granted a rehearing in this succession proceeding to review our holding that the 20 percent partnership interest of the deceased in .F. Hollier & Sons was community property. The succession inventory classified the partnership interest as the separate property of Edese Hollier.1 Mrs. Dea Aucoin Hollier, the surviving widow, opposed the inventory on the ground that the interest had been acquired during the marriage and belonged to the community.

The district court held that the contested item was community property, sustaining the position of the opponent. On…