Jones v. Kyle

Plaintiffs are the nephews and nieces of James Walter Jones who died at Dunn, Richland parish, La., on April 22, 1926, leaving an estate of about $40,000, to wit, about $15,000 in real estate and the rest in personal property.

They are his nearest of kin and sole legal heirs, and this suit is to annul his last will, in which defendant is named his universal legatee, on the ground that said will "was not entirely written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator"; or, in the alternative, to reduce the legacy to the defendant to one tenth of the estate, on the ground that "at the time of the…