SUCCESSION OF KING

No. 23270-CA.

595 So.2d 805 (1992)

SUCCESSION OF KING.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied May 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh by Robert Lee Curry, III, and Paul D. Spillers, Monroe, for appellant Louisiana Methodist Orphanage.

Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips by Mary E. Tharp, Blaine Adkins, Baton Rouge, for appellant LSU Experiment Station.

Hayes, Harkey, Smith, Cascio & Mullens by Thomas M. Hays, Monroe, for appellee Ralph B. Bell, Adm'n.

McKeithen & McKeithen by Bruce B. McKeithen, Monroe, for appellees Presumptive Heirs of Mrs. King.

Benjamin Marshall, IV, Monroe, for appellees Absent Legatees.

Dollar, Price, Noah & Laird by Donald R. Jones, Monroe, for Richard Allen.

Before LINDSAY, BROWN and STEWART, JJ.


LINDSAY, Judge.

This appeal presents the issue of whether an olographic will, written and dated in the handwriting of the testatrix, must be signed at the end in order to be valid, as well as whether the document presented for probate was indeed the document which the decedent intended to be her last will and testament. Legatees under the will appeal a trial court judgment which found the will to be invalid for want of form. For the following reasons, we affirm.<...

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