Succession of Taylor v. Taylor

' John Taylor, a free man of color, made, by public act, dated the 23d day of September, 1847, his nuncupative will, wherein he acknowledged, as his natural children, Célestine, Martha, Charles and Georgina, whom he instituted his universal heirs and legatees. The testator died in January, 1853, and his instituted heirs (with the exception of Georgina, who had departed this life before her father,) were regularly put in possession of his estate. It appears that the above named instituted heirs and legatees were born of an illicit union between John Taylor, a free man of color, and Clara, a…