SUCCESSION OF FRANKS

No. 1537.

170 So.2d 178 (1964)

Succession of Mrs. Ruby L. HOLMS, Widow of Ernest Aaron FRANKS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1965.

Writ Refused February 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Dowling and Polack, Rosenberg, Gex & Rittenberg, New Orleans, for testamentary executor.

White, Fray & White, Gretna, for St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church, universal legatee.

Philip P. Spencer, New Orleans, for the Public Administrator.

John D. Ponder, New Orleans, for absent heirs.

Before CHASEZ, HALL and BARNETTE, JJ.


HALL, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Public Administrator for the Parish of Orleans from a judgment of the District Court "ordering the probate of the olographic will made by the decedent, Mrs. Ruby L. Franks, on the 16th of January, 1960 * * * which olographic will has been lost or mislaid."

A brief statement of the pleadings is helpful to an understanding of the case.

On August 14, 1963 Mrs. Charles Sourthese filed a petition through the law firm...

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