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SUCCESSION OF HARRIS

No. 7368.

329 So.2d 493 (1976)

Succession of Benwall J. HARRIS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1976.

Writ Refused June 2, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Charbonnet, Wayne E. Garrett (Charbonnet & Charbonnet), New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

James J. Grevemberg, Felix W. Gaudin, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before REDMANN, MORIAL and BEER, JJ.

REDMANN, Judge.

"[T]hose who know not how or are not able to read, cannot make dispositions in the form of the will provided for in R.S. 9:2442...." La.R.S. 9:2443.

We decide that a testator's disability to read, with his ordinary eyeglasses, type sized smaller than 10 mm does not invalidate his will typed in type sized about 2 mm. The testator who can only read his will with his eyeglasses is "able to read" within the statute, and the testator who...

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