Succession of Loeb

REDMANN, Judge.

Opponents appeal from a judgment upholding the validity of a statutory will, La. R.S. 9:2442. An attestation following the testator’s first “signature” (an “X”) does not explain the testator’s having signed with a mark. Before that first signature, however, the typewritten will does recite, after all dispositive clauses, “Because I am partially paralyzed and physically weak, but of sound mind and having all my mental capabilities, my signature may be shaky and illegible, I therefore make my mark.”1

The question is whether the statute requires this declaration to follow rather…