Succession of Landry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. In the matter of the succession of George Landry. Suit by legal heirs against Angeline Yohe to set aside a will. From the judgment, Yohe appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement.
MONROE, J.
The heirs of the blood of George Landry sue to annul his will on the ground that he and the universal legatee named therein lived together in open concubinage. This is denied by the universal legatee, who appeals from a judgment reducing the legacy in her favor to one-tenth of the estate, payable out of the movables.
The testator was a negro, formerly a slave, married, but childless, whose business career since his emancipation was so far successful that he had become the owner of several pieces of real estate, and was regarded among people of his class as a man of means.…
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