SUCCESSION OF BEL

No. 10025.

377 So.2d 1380 (1979)

SUCCESSION of Elsie Block, widow of Dr. George S. BEL.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baldwin & Haspel, Jerome J. Reso, Jr. and Malcom A. Myer, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Harvey D. Wagar, III, Legier, McEnerny, Waguespack, Kuhner, Scoggin & Strong, Guy B. Scoggin, Burke & Ballard, Charles B. Mayer, New Orleans, for appellees.

Dart & Dart, Henry P. Dart, III, New Orleans, for appellant.

Before SAMUEL, LEMMON and STOULIG, JJ.


SAMUEL, Judge.

This is an appeal from an unsuccessful attack on the validity of the statutory will and codicils of Elsie Block, widow of Dr. George S. Bel. Decedent's only surviving relatives were her sister, Adele Block, and her niece, Emily Dunn, the daughter of a pre-deceased sister. Both her sister and her niece initiated the attack. Pending appeal, Adele Block died, leaving her entire estate to Emily Dunn, her co-plaintiff. A judgment of possession was rendered...

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