Succession of Haydel

FOURNET, Justice.

This is an action instituted by the surviving widow of the decedent to set aside his last will and testament on the ground that the legatee is his adulterine bastard daughter. The trial judge rendered judgment decreeing the will an absolute nullity but reserved to the child the right to claim alimony from the decedent’s estate.

Eugene Joseph Haydel died testate, leaving surviving him his widow, Mary Haydel, who is an interdict' and under the curatorship of Mrs. Adele Matthews, but left neither ascendants nor descendants. The property he died possessed of belonged to the…