Wallace v. Banks

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Melton Wallace, contending that his deceased wife, Martha Williams Wallace, *299died intestate leaving neither ascendents, nor descendants excepting a son, Willie Banks, born of an adulterous union, and as surviving spouse that he is entitled to the ownership of her undivided half interest in the community of acquets and gains formerly existing between them, instituted proceedings to have set aside an ex parte judgment recognizing the said son as the heir of deceased and placing him in possession of her estate; and from a judgment of the district court rejecting his demands…