Succession of Currie v. Currie

EDWARDS, Judge.

This is an appeal by Mrs. Corine Murphy Decker, the opponent of an olographic will, from a judgment ordering the will of Ivy Murphy Currie, a/k/a Iva Gae Currie, to probate.

Ivy Murphy Currie, the testatrix, died on July 12, 1971, survived by her parents, five brothers and sisters, and her husband, James L. Currie. On September 19, 1974, Corine Murphy Decker, the decedent’s sister and curator of their parents, filed a petition for possession seeking to be made adminis-tratrix of her sister’s succession. Thereafter, Mrs. Decker commenced an inventory of the succession.

On February…