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SUCCESSION OF BUTLER

No. 980.

152 So.2d 239 (1963)

Succession of Mrs. Lorenza DOMING, Widow of Dommy BUTLER.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 6, 1963.

Certiorari Refused June 14, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graham & Graham, J. B. Kiefer, New Orleans, for Mrs. Mercedes Laura Carter, Divorced Wife of Joseph Baptiste, petitioner and appellant.

Vic Choppin, Jr., New Orleans, for Mrs. Evelyn Thompson, Wife of Willie Thomas, defendant and appellee.

Before REGAN, YARRUT and CHASEZ, JJ.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Mercedes Carter Baptiste, instituted this proceeding to probate a nuncupative will by public act, executed by the decedent, Mrs. Lorenza Doming Butler,1 on September 3, 1952, wherein plaintiff was named testamentary executrix and universal legatee, and also, to have declared as null and void a statutory will, executed April 1, 1955. Plaintiff asserted that the last will was a nullity since the formalities prescribed...

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