Succession of Ferrand

REDMANN, Judge.

Because there is testimony from two neighbors that decedent and his legatee were living together in a sexual relationship a year before his last illness and from a number of witnesses that the legatee sought to defeat an eviction proceeding by testifying that she was the “common-law wife” of decedent, the trial judge’s conclusion of open concubinage is supported by the record and we cannot substitute our judgment for his; Canter v. Koehring, La. 1973, 283 So.2d 716.

The fact that the legatee maintained her apartment in a public housing project (using it also for some of her work…