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POYNOT v. PFISTER

No. 8230.

348 So.2d 98 (1977)

Oscar POYNOT, Individually, and as the duly appointed Provisional Curator of Edna LaCroix, widow of Walter F. Poynot, v. Gerald G. PFISTER and Ernest J. Hessler, Register of Conveyances for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 1, 1977.

Writ Refused November 4, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Many, Lo Coco & Dwyer, Vincent T. Lo Coco, New Orleans, Harry R. Cabral, Jr., Metairie, for defendants-appellants.

Reuter & Reuter, Arthur C. Reuter, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before REDMANN, GULOTTA and BEER, JJ.

BEER, Judge.

Mrs. Edna LaCroix Poynot, the then 81-year-old widow of Walter F. Poynot (who had died on August 12, 1974, leaving his entire estate to Mrs. Poynot), allegedly executed an authentic Act of Adoption of Gerald G. Pfister on August 28, 1974, before a notary public in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. On September 4, 1974, a petition for interdiction of Mrs. Poynot was filed. As a result, Oscar Poynot was appointed provisional...

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