MILES v. BROUSSARD

No. 1183.

166 So.2d 34 (1964)

Cornelia Haynes MILES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Hugh Marion BROUSSARD et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dupuy & Dupuy, by Marc Dupuy, Jr., Marksville, for plaintiff-appellant.

Charles A. Riddle, Jr., Marksville, Edward G. Burleigh, Opelousas, for defendants-appellees.

Before TATE, SAVOY and HOOD, JJ.


SAVOY, Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment decreeing a nuncupative will and testament by private act to be valid.

Plaintiff, the sister of Bythella Haynes Fisher, filed a suit to set aside and annul a will executed by her sister on March 12, 1959, in nuncupative form by private act, on the grounds (1) that the testatrix was of unsound mind when the will was made and lacked testamentary capacity, and, therefore,

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