Succession of Bonner

HIGGINS, Justice.

Arthur Childers filed a petition, alleging that Jennie Bonner died in Shreveport on January 9, 1938; that an application for the administration of her estate was made by an alleged collateral heir, but abandoned; that on February 8, 1938, the succession of the deceased was opened and certain parties claiming as heirs on allegations of intestacy were, ex parte, sent in possession of the estate as heirs; that a will had been found recently dated July 14, 1937, in private nuncupative form, in which the petitioner was named as executor, and he prayed that the will which he…