Legal Opinion
Potts v. Potts
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 28, 1918No. 21183PublishedCited by 9 opinions
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of De Soto; John H. Boone, Judge. Suit by Paul G. Potts, Steve E. Potts, and others against Paul M. Potts and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLeche, J.
The matters at issue herein are fully stated in appellant’s brief as follows:
“This suit is a contest over the estate of Mrs. Susan T. Hunt, lately a resident of De Soto parish, La., who died on January 6, 1913. The plaintiffs are her grandchildren, sole heirs of her two predeceased sons. The defendants are her three living children.
“Mrs. Hunt was twice married. Her first husband was S. M. Potts, by whom she had five children, viz. Henry, Steve S., Paul M., Lillian E., and Etta E. Potts. Her second husband was W. W. Hunt, to whom she was married in 1898. No issue was born of the latter…
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