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SUCCESSION OF ROUSSEL

No. 63698.

373 So.2d 155 (1979)

SUCCESSION of Lawrence ROUSSEL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 25, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney J. Madere, New Orleans, for plaintiff-applicant, Henry Roussel.

Larry C. Becnel, Vacherie, for defendants-respondents Mrs. Aldonia Alexis Roussel, Executrix and Legatte and Mrs. Olamae Roussel Joshua, legatee.

SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

Henry Roussel, the son of the decedent Lawrence Roussel, brought suit in the Twenty-third Judicial District Court in and for the parish of St. James, contesting the validity of his father's will. The will purports to be a nuncupative testament by private act which had been offered for probate and allowed with authorization for letters testamentary to issue. Henry Roussel alleges that fewer than five of the six witnesses who signed the will...

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