SUCCESSION OF REYNOLDS

No. 41289.

71 So.2d 537 (1954)

224 La. 975

Succession of REYNOLDS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 22, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Barr, III, and W. Blair Lancaster, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiffs, appellants and appellees.

Charles E. Richards, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant-appellee.


HAMITER, Justice.

Lilian Bell Reynolds, a femme sole, died in the City of New Orleans, wherein she maintained her domicile, on January 25, 1952. Several months prior thereto she had deposited with Frank B. Wood a document purportedly constituting her holographic last will and testament in which he was appointed her testamentary executor.

On the petition of Frank B. Wood the mentioned document was, on January 28, 1952, probated and ordered executed as decedent...

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