Succession of Johnson

LE BLANC, Justice.

This case presents the ever recurring problem before the Courts where there is a contest over a will which allegedly contains a disposition that is prohibited under our law and is therefore invalid. Another issue concerns the appointment of an administrator or executor to the estate. The law having reference to dispositions such as are reprobated is found in Article 1520 of the LSA-Civil -Code, which reads in part as follows:

“Substitutions and fidei commissa are and remain prohibited.

“Every disposition by which the donee, the heir, or legatee is charged to preserve for or to…