Davenport v. Davenport
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third. Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary;, Albert Campbell Allen, Judge. Action by Mrs. Sallie Davenport and others against John F. Davenport and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiffs are the collateral relations of John J. Davenport, deceased. The latter, some 20 days bdfore his death, sent for the principal notary of the parish and executed before him an act acknowledging the defendants as his natural children and legitimating them, and execut*1012ed also two testaments. In the first he gave the children one-fourth of his estate; in the second he made them his universal legatees. This suit is brought to have these three acts declared to be null and of no effect.
The grounds are:
First. That the notary was not in fact a notary, for the reason that he had not taken…
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