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SUCCESSION OF ROGERS

No. CA 85 0697.

494 So.2d 546 (1986)

SUCCESSION OF Alvah Jackson ROGERS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied September 19, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Wax, Val A. Schaffe, III, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant, Louise Tregre Jarreau Ruiz or Succ. of Louise Tregre Jarreau Ruiz; Mrs. Carmen Tregre & Mrs. Cecile Tregre.

Nita R. Gorrell, Hammond, for defendant-appellee Luther Bankston.

Bernard S. Dolbear, New Orleans, for appellee, Hilda Michell.

Tom H. Matheny, Kathryn Jean Coleman, Hammond, for appellee, Luther V. Bankston, and Mrs. Willie Johnson.

Before EDWARDS, LANIER and JOHN S. COVINGTON, JJ.

LANIER, Judge.

This is a direct action brought in a succession proceeding seeking to annul a probated statutory will of a person whose sight was impaired to the extent that he could not read. After a trial on the merits,1 the district court upheld the validity of the will. This suspensive appeal followed.

FACTS

Alvah Jackson Rogers executed a statutory will as a sight-impaired person on December 14, 1982. On February...

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