SUCCESSION OF BOYD

No. 4504.

295 So.2d 487 (1974)

Succession of Dorothy BOYD.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1974.

Writ Granted September 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pharis & Pharis by F. Jean Pharis, Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.

David A. Sheffield, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HOOD, MILLER and DOMENGEAUX, JJ.


MILLER, Judge.

Dorothy Boyd died August 26, 1973, leaving an olographic will dated "2-8-72". The universal legatee Charles E. Kerlin obtained an ex parte order probating the will. The trial court sustained the attack on the will brought by decedent's surviving children T. C. Miller, Jr. and Alice Cleo Bradley for these written reasons:

The purported testament is olographic in form. At the top of the testament, Dorothy Boyd wrote "2-8-72". Civil Code Article...

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