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SUCCESSION OF COTTRELL v. QUIRK

No. 05-841.

921 So.2d 1235 (2006)

SUCCESSION OF Alice Foster COTTRELL v. Irma Lavergne QUIRK.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Reissued March 1, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Gerard Caswell, Eunice, LA, for Appellees, Ruby J. Fisher McGlothin, Estate of Bessie Fisher Summers, Ray Fisher, Clie Mae Beacham Price, Floyd Leon Simpson, Aline Marie Simpson Minniear, Patricia Simpson Santos, Estate of Claude Vincent Foster, Dorothy Foster Kneipp, Rose Ella Simpson Cesarini, Estate of Lillian Ewing, Annetta Foster Sanders, Vera June Foster Cornay, William Gerald Simpson, Helen Maxine Simpson Die, Lester Wayne Simpson, Sandra Jean Simpson Bates, Ela Ann Simpson Kite, William Louis Simpson, Gerald Wayne Simpson, Dorothy Lee Simpson Phillips, Patricia June Simpson Miller, Myrtle Ivy Simpson McCullough, Vernon Hardin Simpson, and Mary Carolyn Simpson Stagg.

Bruce A. Gaudin, Opelousas, LA, for Appellant, Irma Lavergne Quirk.

M. Terrance Hoychick, Young, Hoychick & Aguillard, Eunice, LA, for Appellees, Doris Reese Stagg, and Dixie Lea Broussard Saucier.

Jacque B. Pucheu, Jr. Pucheu, Pucheu & Robinson, Eunice, LA, for Appellee, Austin Cottrell, Sarah Cottrell, John A. Cottrell, Jr.

Court composed of SYLVIA R. COOKS, GLENN B. GREMILLION, and ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, Judges.

GREMILLION, Judge.

The defendant, Irma Lavergne Quirk, appeals the judgment of the trial court finding that she was not a universal or general legatee in the succession of Alice Foster Cottrell. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Cottrell died in June 2003. She and her late husband had no children. Her closest living relative, her sister, Belle Foster, died in September 1999, and she also had no children.

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