SUCCESSION OF BLYTHE

No. 87-CA-565.

519 So.2d 284 (1988)

SUCCESSION OF Donald F. BLYTHE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Granted March 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicaud, Justrabo & Rousset, René R. Nicaud, and J. Courtney Wilson, New Orleans, for Diana Dawson Blythe, appellant.

Trapolin & Coleman, L. Kevin Coleman, New Orleans, for Carol Sicard Blythe, appellee.

Before CHEHARDY, C.J., and KLIEBERT and GAUDIN, JJ.


CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal in a much-litigated succession contest between the decedent's daughter, born of his first marriage, and his widow, who was his second wife. At issue on this appeal is a judgment rendered on September 16, 1986 that declared the widow to be owner of the entire disposable portion of the decedent's estate.

Donald F. Blythe died on February 22, 1982, leaving an olographic will dated November 12, 1978, in which he established...

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