Succession of Landry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. In the matter of the succession of George Landry. Angeline Yrle, executrix, obtained an order for an accounting, and from a judgment overruling her opposition to the homologation of a partition by the heirs, and sustaining the opposition of the heirs to her final account, she appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
This is a sequel to the suit entitled “Succession of Landry,” reported in 114 La. 829, 38 South. 575, which was an action by the heirs at law of Geo. Landry to annul the last will and testament of the decedent, instituting Angeline Yrle as universal legatee, on the ground that the testator and the legatee had lived together in open concubinage, and that the testator was prohibited by law from donating to his said concubine more than one-tenth part of the value of his estate, payable from the movables.
This contention was affirmed by the district court, and by this court on the appeal, and the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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