Succession of Jahraus
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans: Thomas C. W. Ellis, Judge. Iu the matter of the succession of Celine Jahraus. Action to set aside a will. From the judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The father of the decedent brings this suit to annul her will, on tliet*457ground that she lived in open concubinage with the universal legatee, the principal defendant, and therefore, under, article 1481, Civ. Code, was incapable of making a will in his favor.
Defendant denies that illicit relations ever existed between him and the testatrix, and, in case the court should find that such relations did exist, he denies that they were of the character described, or, in other words, that they constituted the “living together in open concubinage” from which results the incapacity pronounced by article…
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