In re the Succession of Price

SALOOM, Judge Pro Tem.

This appeal arises from a succession proceeding in which the trial court ruled that an olographic will, containing a legacy of immovable property, was tacitly revoked by a subsequent sale of the bequeathed property.

On July 28, 1983, Jessie Clinton Price executed an olographic will bequeathing ten acres of land to her grandson, Stephen Baum, who was also appointed dative testamentary executor.

On November 13, 1985, Ms. Price sold twenty acres, including the ten acres mentioned in the will, to Polly Laborde, her only child and sole forced heir. Polly La-borde is the mother…