Succession of Schnitter

56 So.2d 563 (1951)

Succession of SCHNITTER.

No. 40147.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 10, 1951.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1952.

O'Niell & O'Niell and Gibson Tucker, Jr., all of New Orleans, for interveners and appellants.

Nicholas Masters and Willis C. McDonald, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Mrs. Christine Anna Schnitter, a resident of the Parish of Jefferson, died intestate on May 30, 1945, leaving neither ascendants nor descendants. In due course her surviving husband, Arthur T. Plymen, obtained an ex parte judgment which recognized him, as surviving spouse in…