SUCCESSION OF DYKES

No. 8673.

258 So.2d 606 (1972)

Succession of Willie Hardy DYKES.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 22, 1972.

Writs Refused April 13, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. B. Ponder, Jr., of Ponder & Ponder, Amite, and Burrell J. Carter, Greensburg, for appellants W. E. Dykes, Individually and as Administrator of the Succession of W. H. Dykes & H. T. Dykes.

Joseph H. Simpson, of Schilling & Simpson, Amite, for plaintiff-appellants-appellees Garfield Dykes.

Before LOTTINGER, SARTAIN and ELLIS, JJ.


SARTAIN, Judge.

Willie Hardy Dykes, hereinafter referred to as W. H. Dykes, died testate on June 23, 1969. He had no children and was predeceased by his parents and his first wife. He was divorced from his second wife. His will provided for a particular legacy of his interest in certain immovable property in favor of two nephews, W. E. Dykes and H. T. Dykes, the sons of a predeceased brother, and provided that the remainder of his estate would go to his first wife...

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