Davis v. Smith

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

Ervin Smith died June 19, 1973, in Sul-phur, Louisiana. Norine Rigmaiden Smith, as surviving spouse and testamentary executrix of his succession, filed a Tableau of Distribution and final accounting and petitioned the court to homologate same. Several of the decedent’s daughters (by a prior marriage) filed an opposition to the Tableau of Distribution. After a trial on the merits the District Judge dismissed the opposition. From this judgment the opponents have appealed.

Two of the specifications of error involved in this appeal deal with the trial judge’s failure to deny…