In re the Succession of Harrison

WATKINS, Judge.

Emanuel Harrison died without issue on February 17, 1960. He had attempted to make an olographic will on December 15, 1955, which left certain immovable property in East Feliciana Parish to “John D. Harrison and his children”. John D. Harrison was the foster son of Emanuel Harrison, but had never been legally adopted. Emanuel Harrison was also survived by his second wife, Arie Jagers Day Harrison, and by siblings and descendants of deceased siblings, who are his legal heirs.

John D. Harrison petitioned to be appointed administrator of the Succession of Emanuel Harrison, and was…