Succession of Scott

de la HOUSSAYE, Judge.

This is a contest for the tutorship of two minor children, Wade Maxwell Scott and Cassandra Heloise Scott, 14 and 11 years of age respectively. The applicants are Mrs. Merle Scott Edmundson, the paternal aunt of the children, and Mrs. Sarah M. Shufeldt, their maternal grandmother and sole surviving direct ascendant.

These children are the children of Wilson Levron Scott and Mrs. Mamie Heloise *898Shufeldt Scott. Mrs. Scott died on September 12, 1971, and Wilson Levron Scott died on April 20, 1974, leaving no will for the appointment of a tutor. On April 24, 1974, Mrs.…