SUCCESSION OF BREWSTER

No. 21221.

145 So.2d 597 (1962)

Succession of Mary Lucinda BREWSTER.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1962.

Certiorari Denied January 3, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. T. Charbonnet, L. E. Jung, W. J. Wegmann, New Orleans, for appellant.

F. D. Tournier, New Orleans, for appellee.

Before FRUGÉ, MENUET, and ELLIS, JJ.


ELLIS, Judge.

Mary Lucinda Brewster died on March 2, 1958, leaving an olographic will dated July 27, 1942, which was duly probated on March 13, 1958. Following the signature on the will was the following postscript:

"I appoint my attorney Jerome Meunier as my executor."

The court, ex proprio motu, refused to admit the latter sentence to probate, and it is not contended by counsel herein that it is of any testamentary effect.

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