Succession of Ryan

PONDER, Justice.

Mrs. Lurl Pipes Carter Ryan died on March 30, 1953, leaving no ascendants nor descendants. Thereafter on September 17, 1953, her husband, A. J. Bob Ryan, opened her succession and presented an olographic will, dated September 29, 1951, for probate. He was appointed executor in pursuance to the provisions of the will. Ruth Johnson, a niece of the decedent, opposed the will on the ground that it was null and void because it contained a prohibited substitution and asked that a prior will, dated April 17, 1946, be recognized as the last will of the testatrix and ordered probated.…