SUCCESSION OF TALBOT

No. 88-C-0296.

530 So.2d 1132 (1988)

SUCCESSION OF Robert Mirkil TALBOT.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney Blitzer, Jr., Richard Zimmerman, Jr., Kantrow, Spaht, Weaver & Blitzer, A.P.L.C., Baton Rouge, for applicant.

Eugene Groves, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.

The question presented is whether a testator's intentional destruction of one of the multiple originals of his will creates a presumption that he intended to revoke all of the other copies of the testament, and, if so, whether in the present case the presumption was rebutted by evidence to the contrary. The widow of the testator opposed the petition to probate the will filed by the contingent beneficiary under the will. After a hearing the trial court...

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