Legal Opinion
Succession of Lyons
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 6, 1983No. CA-0635PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GULOTTA, Judge.
In this will contest, Henry Lyons, a nephew of the decedent (Henry Lyons, Sr.) appeals from a judgment annulling the December 14, 1981 olographic will, which names the nephew as universal legatee.
The two-pronged attack in the trial court was that the will was not in the testator’s handwriting and that the testator lacked testamentary capacity. The trial judge concluded that the will “was written and signed by the decedent”, but did “not believe that the decedent had testamentary capacity on the day the Will was written.”
The primary thrust in this appeal by the proponent is the…
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