SUCCESSION OF DUGAS

Nos. 11981, 11982.

400 So.2d 333 (1981)

Succession of Evelene V. Haase DUGAS. Anthony Donald HAASE, Sr., et al. v. Dalferes F. ROBICHEAUX, Jr., et ux.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baldwin & Haspel, Jacob J. Meyer, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Charles E. McHale, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before REDMANN, KLIEBERT and KLEES, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

Some of decedent's legal heirs appeal from a judgment upholding her one-page statutory will against their attack. They argue the will is invalid because her signature appears after the attestation when the statute requires it "at the end of the will"; because she could not read without a magnifying lens and did not have such a lens with her at its execution; and because she lacked testamentary capacity. We affirm.

The requirement of the testatrix...

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