Succession of Wesley

LE BLANC, Justice.

This suit involves a contest over a succession of a decedent who was an illegitimate child of an unknown father. He was legally married to one of the contestants who claims his estate as surviving spouse under the provisions of Article 924 of the LSA-Civil Code. She is opposed in her claim by a half-sister of the decedent, a legitimate child of his deceased mother.

The surviving spouse, the first claimant, opened the succession by petition to the district court asking to be appointed administratrix. She prayed for an inventory of the property left by the decedent but…