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SUCCESSION OF ROME

No. 85-CA-306.

478 So.2d 1270 (1985)

SUCCESSION OF Margaret St. Pierre ROME.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Denied January 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Polack, Rosenberg, Rittenberg & Endom, Larry C. Becnel, Leon H. Rittenberg, Jr., Catherine L. Lemann, New Orleans, for Omer St. Pierre, Kenneth St. Pierre, Ralph St. Pierre and Anna Mae Oubre, plaintiffs-appellants.

Scoggin, Strong & Kuhner, Guy B. Scoggin, New Orleans, for American Heart Research Foundation, also known as American Heart Assn.-Louisiana, Inc., defendant-appellee.

Scoggin, Strong & Kuhner, Fred Clegg Strong, New Orleans, for American Cancer Society, Louisiana Div., Inc., also known as American Cancer Foundation, defendant-appellee.

McCollister, McCleary, Fazio & Holliday, Stephen G. McCollister, Baton Rouge, for American Diabetes Assn., Louisiana Affiliate, Inc., and Retina Research Foundation, defendant-appellee.

Kliebert & Heltz, Michael K. Heltz, Thomas J. Kliebert, Jr., Gramercy, for Michael K. Heltz and Johnnie Pierce, co-executors of the succession, defendants-appellees.

Before CHEHARDY, BOWES and GAUDIN, JJ.

CHEHARDY, Judge.

This appeal is an attempt to annul a statutory will because one of the legatees was the notary public before whom it was executed. The district court found the will valid because the notary had renounced the legacies by authentic act. The opponents of the will have appealed.

Margaret St. Pierre Rome, widow of Frelson Rome, died on December 10, 1983. She left no forced heirs. Her statutory will, dated October 8, 1981, underwent ex parte probate...

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