Succession of Sciaccaluga

ODOM, Justice.

The only question involved in this case is-whether Mrs. Mary Bernard Sciaccaluga is- entitled to receive $1,000 from the succession of her deceased husband, Angelo Sebastian Sciaccaluga, as dower under article 3252 of the Civil Code. That she is the widow of the deceased and in necessitous circumstances is not disputed. But the executrix and legatees under the will contest her claim on two grounds, first, because she abandoned her husband some forty years previous to his death, and lived separate and apart from him from the date of the abandonment until his death; and, second,…