WOODFORK v. SANDERS

No. 4274.

248 So.2d 419 (1971)

Arthur WOODFORK v. Irwin R. SANDERS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benton & Moseley by Thomas H. Benton, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Marian Mayer Berkett of Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before REDMANN, STOULIG and BOUTALL, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff, the universal legatee under a will a trial court held formally invalid, appeals from the dismissal, on exception of no cause of action, of his damage suit against the testator's attorney who prepared the will.

The substance of plaintiff's petition (as amended) is that plaintiff (whom defendant represented in another matter) brought the would-be testator to defendant to have a will executed, in accord with testator's wishes, naming...

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