IN RE SUCCESSION OF HOLBROOK

No. 2013-C-1181.

144 So.3d 845 (2014)

SUCCESSION of James Jason HOLBROOK, Sr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 28, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tonry, Brinson & Glorioso, LLC, Richard A. Tonry, II , Chalmette, LA, for Applicant.

Peter David Carollo , for Respondent.

Sam Joseph Collett, Jr. , Bogalusa, LA, for Sarah Peterson, (Amicus Curiae).


GUIDRY, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether an incomplete date in an attestation clause invalidates a testament when the full date appears in the first paragraph of the testament and on every page of the testament, including the page of the attestation clause. The district court granted the testator's daughter's motion for summary judgment seeking to set aside the will as invalid because the attestation clause was not fully dated and, thus, failed to meet the...

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