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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Succession of Lillie Weir SIMMS, Widow of Edward F. Simms.
    No. 1584.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana. Fourth Circuit
    Feb. 8, 1965.
    Rehearings Denied March 8, 1965.
    Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, Eugene D. Saunders, Lawrence K. Benson, Guy C. Lyman, Jr., New Orleans, for Alden X. Boddeker and Henry C. Riq-uelmy, defendants-appellants.
    Leonard Oppenheim, New Orleans, for William P. Hamblen, and Leclare Ratter-ree, Jr., undertutor, and Lillie Franzheim McCullar, only as natural tutrix of her minor children, Lillie Celeste McAshan, Kenneth Alexander McAshan, Elizabeth Simms McAshan and Michael M. McCullar, appellants.
    H. Alva Brumfield, Sylvia Roberts, Baton Rouge, for Dr. Benjamin F. Kitchen, Jr., tutor of the minor, Benjamin F. Kitchen, III, appellant.
    Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, .Sumter D. Marks, Jr., Louis B. Claverie, New Orleans, for Kenneth Franzheim, II, appellant.
    Sidney Wright, Houston, Tex., Cobb & Wright, Morris Wright, Joseph V. Ferguson, II, New Orleans, for Mrs. Elizabeth Reese, appellee.
    Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Hopkins, John L. Toler, E. Harold Saer, Jr., New Orleans, for Lillie Weir Franz-heim McCullar, appearing only in her capacity as provisional administratrix of the succession of Bessie Simms Franzheim, and for Lillie Weir Franzheim McCullar, only in her -individual capacity, defendant-appel-lee.
    Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, Wood Brown, New Orleans, for Kenneth Franzheim, II, individually, appellee.
    Chester A. Eggleston, Port Sulphur, curator ad hoc for the minors Benjamin F. Kitchen, III, Edward F, Kitchen, Elizabeth F. Kitchen and attorney for Philip Masque-lette, undertutor of- the above minors.
    Before REGAN, CHASEZ and HALL, JJ.
   REGAN, Judge.

Subsequent to the rendition of the opinion and decree of this court, all of the litigants herein filed a joint motion, supported by certified copies of the appropriate documents, revealing that on December 28, 1964, Kenneth Franzheim, II, Alden X. Boddeker, and W. P. Hamblen, Jr., were recognized and appointed by the lower court as testamentary executors in the Succession of Bessie Simms Franzheim, widow of Kenneth Franzheim. Thus, they have superseded Lilly Weir Franzheim McCullar, who formally acted as provisional adminis-tratrix of the succession. In conformity with the foregoing motion, Kenneth Franz-heim, II, Alden X. Boddeker, and W. P. Hamblen, Jr., have been substituted in this court in their respective capacities as administrators ‘of the Succession of Bessie Simms Franzheim, widow of Kenneth Franzheim, in lieu and in place of Lilly Weir Franzheim McCullar.