SUCCESSION OF DINWIDDIE

No. 4999.

263 So.2d 739 (1972)

Succession of George Sumney DINWIDDIE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milling, Saal, Benson, Woodward & Hillyer, Lawrence K. Benson, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant, Ainslie Dinwiddie.

Sidney L. Shushan, William M. Barnett, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees, Canal Street Presbyterian Church and United Fund for The Greater New Orleans Area.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Thomas G. Rapier, Lucius F. Suthon, and Edward F. Martin, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees, Robert W. Elasasser, Mrs. Ruth Larsen Dinwiddie, Louis J. Darrah, and J. Mort Walker, Jr.

Before SAMUEL, LEMMON and GULOTTA, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment rejecting a petition to annul an olographic will on the ground that it contained a prohibited substitution. George S. Dinwiddie died on July 11, 1968, survived by his second wife, Ruth Dinwiddie, and by his two children, Ainslie and Bruce, born of a prior marriage. The decedent left a will in olographic form dated October 5, 1962, which was probated in Civil District Court on August 1, 1968. The decedent's...

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