IN RE SUCCESSION OF CARROLL

No. 09-CA-219.

30 So.3d 11 (2009)

SUCCESSION OF Kenneth Eugene CARROLL.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

December 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evangeline M. Vavrick, Evangeline A. Vavrick, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs/Appellees/Second Appellants.

Raymond P. Ladouceur, Jane C. Alvarez, Ladouceur and Ladouceur, L.L.C., Abita Spring, LA, for Defendant/Appellant.

Jack M. Alltmont, Max Nathan, Jr., Danielle M. Ross, Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Israel, L.L.P. New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellee.

Panel composed of Judges EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., MARION F. EDWARDS, and WALTER J. ROTHSCHILD.


MARION F. EDWARDS, Judge.

This issue presented to us in this succession proceeding is whether a handwritten document signed and dated by the decedent is a valid olographic codicil to the decedent's will. This matter has been before this Court in a prior appeal1 (Carroll I). In Carroll I, this Court examined a different writing by the decedent and agreed with the trial court that the document did not constitute a valid olographic...

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