SUCCESSION OF BECHTEL

No. 42125.

91 So.2d 602 (1956)

231 La. 459

Succession of Miss Ella C. BECHTEL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Hepburn Many, Morphy & Freeman, New Orleans, for petitioners and appellants.

Philip P. Spencer, New Orleans, for appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

The beneficiaries under a purported olographic last will and testament executed on August 21, 1953 by the decedent, Miss Ella C. Bechtel, are appealing from a judgment refusing to probate the will on the ground that it does not comply with the form required by law. No inventory of the effects of the succession has yet been taken and no evidence was adduced below revealing the succession assets and their value. Notwithstanding this, appellants maintain...

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