SUCCESSION OF ELLIS

No. 85-147.

486 So.2d 260 (1986)

SUCCESSION OF Bonnie Hession ELLIS. Re Bessie G. Dixon GALE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William HESSION, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calvin T. Guidry, of Cole, Guidry, etc., Lafayette, for defendants-appellants.

Edwards, Stefanski & Barousse, Homer Ed Barousse, Jr., Crowley, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GUIDRY, FORET and HOOD, JJ.


GUIDRY, Judge.

This is an action to annul a statutory will dated September 30, 1976 for lack of testamentary capacity. The plaintiff in this proceeding is Bessie G. Dixon Gale, the decedent's sole legatee and named executrix under earlier testaments. The defendants are Eugene C. Gilder, dative testamentary executor of the Succession of Bonnie Hession Ellis, and William Hession, who, along with Bessie G. Dixon Gale, is named as legatee under the testament sought to...

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