Succession of Moran

479 So.2d 350 (1985)

SUCCESSION OF Elma Balthazar MORAN.

No. 85-C-0819.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 2, 1985.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1986.

Russell E. Gahagan, Gahagan & Gahagan, Natchitoches, for applicant.

Stephen Michael Henry, Daniel T. Murchison, Watson, Murchison, Crews, Arthur & Corkern, Natchitoches, for respondents.

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is a declaratory judgment action brought by the executrix and residuary legatee, Cleo Ives Robertson, to have a codicil declared valid. Both the trial court and the court of appeal, 466 So.2d 512 (1985), held the document invalid because it…