Succession of Lannes

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is an action by a residuary legatee and an intervention by collateral heirs filed for the purpose of having reduced a testamentary disposition in favor of Emma Stevens, on the grounds that she had lived in open concubinage with the testator and, therefore, under the provisions of article 1481 of the Revised Civil Code, was not entitled to receive more than “one-tenth part of the whole value” of his estate, from the movable property. The plaintiff, as residuary legatee, also claimed that the legacy in his and Emma Stevens’ favor was a conjoint one, and that under the law…