Legal Opinion
Jim Akin v. Louisiana National Bank of Baton Rouge
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 5, 1963No. 19642PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Jim Grant Akin, a citizen of Texas, brought this action in the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against Louisiana National Bank of Baton Rouge, the Testamentary Executor of the Succession of Charles W. Lamar, Jr., the plaintiff’s deceased adoptive father. The plaintiff also joined as defendants the testamentary heirs of the decedent, Mrs. Lamar and two minor children. The complaint prays for a judgment “ordering and decreeing that said Defendants, and each of them, recognize the rights of Plaintiff as an adopted child and heir of…
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