SUCCESSION OF MELANCON

No. 5420.

330 So.2d 679 (1976)

Succession of Dr. Clovis J. MELANCON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 14, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tate & Tate by Donald J. Tate, Mamou, for executor-appellant.

John Sturgeon, Ferriday, J. Jake Fontenot, Mamou, John Saunders, Mamou, for appellee.

Before HOOD, GUIDRY and PETERS, JJ.


GUIDRY, Judge.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment interpreting the effect of certain additions and lineations in the last will and testament of Dr. Clovis J. Melancon, deceased. The suit was instituted by Dr. Frank P. Savoy, the executor of his last will and testament. All legatees, being the only parties in interest, were made defendants.

Dr. C. J. Melancon, on August 24, 1971, executed a three page statutory will pursuant to LSA-R.S. 9:2442. Included...

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