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ESTATE OF WARTELLE

No. 82-612.

428 So.2d 1300 (1983)

ESTATE OF Margery Kilpatrick WARTELLE, Plaintiff-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied April 15, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Reid, Amite, for plaintiff-appellant.

Sandoz, Sandoz & Schiff, Lawrence B. Sandoz, Jr., Opelousas, for appellees-defendants.

Joseph H. Simpson, Amite, for defendant-appellee.

Before STOKER, DOUCET and YELVERTON, JJ.

DOUCET, Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to have the statutory testament of deceased set aside on the grounds that Lizzie Kilpatrick Watts, one of three witnesses, was also a legatee. There were two other witnesses who were competent. The District Judge upheld the validity of the statutory will, holding that R.S. 9:24421 required only that such a will be executed in the presence of a notary and two competent witnesses and the signature of a third...

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