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IN RE AGUILERA

No. CA 07-77.

956 So.2d 718 (2007)

Succession of Bernice H. AGUILERA.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

May 2, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Preston Crews, Jr., Attorney at Law, Natchitoches, LA, for Appellees, Patricia H. Mellor, Katherine M. Carter, Barbara E. Mellor, John F. Mellor.

Charles Raymond Whitehead, Jr., Whitehead Law Offices, Natchitoches, LA, for Appellant, Succession of Bernice Aguilera, through its executor James Seaman.

Court composed of ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, BILLY HOWARD EZELL, and J. DAVID PAINTER, Judges.

EZELL, Judge.

James Seaman, the dative testamentary executor of the succession of Bernice Aguilera, appeals a trial court judgment dismissing the proceedings to probate a will of Ms. Aguilera. The trial court found that a judgment on a more recent will in Florida barred an action in Louisiana pursuant to the doctrine of res judicata.

FACTS

Since 1937, Bernice Aguilera resided in Natchitoches with her husband who died in the early 1960's. In November...

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