SUCCESSION OF MORAN

No. 85-C-0819.

479 So.2d 350 (1985)

SUCCESSION OF Elma Balthazar MORAN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell E. Gahagan, Gahagan & Gahagan, Natchitoches, for applicant.

Stephen Michael Henry, Daniel T. Murchison, Watson, Murchison, Crews, Arthur & Corkern, Natchitoches, for respondents.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is a declaratory judgment action brought by the executrix and residuary legatee, Cleo Ives Robertson, to have a codicil declared valid. Both the trial court and the court of appeal, 466 So.2d 512 (1985), held the document invalid because it contained a prohibited substitution.

Elma Balthazar Moran died testate, survived by neither ascendants nor descendants, leaving a valid statutory will dated...

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