SUCCESSION OF LANDRY

No. CA-2178.

463 So.2d 681 (1985)

SUCCESSION OF Mathilde Lopes, Divorced Wife of Edgar C. LANDRY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phyllis C. Coci, Vincent C. Cuccia, Metairie, for plaintiff-appellee.

Patrick C. Kelley, William L. Andry, Andry & Andry, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before GARRISON, BARRY and LOBRANO, JJ.


BARRY, Judge.

A mother's testamentary disinherison is based on a confrontation with her son in 1947. The issues are whether that incident involved a C.C. Art. 1621(1) "striking" of the mother or if the son's failure thereafter to contact his mother amounted to cruelty under C.C. Art. 1621(2).

Mrs. Mathilde Landry died testate in 1980. Her 1970 will acknowledged forced portions to five of her six children: Edgar, Charles, Esther, Norbert and Myra (the executrix...

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