Legal Opinion

Succession of Lafferan-Derie

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided December 12, 1955No. 42061PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PONDER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Civil District Court decreeing a nuncupative will by public act invalid and void ■on the ground that the testatrix lacked testamentary capacity to make the will, and recognizing a prior nuncupative will executed by the decedent.

Mrs. Lillian White, universal legatee and testamentary executrix, brought proceedings for the probation of a nuncupative will by public act, executed on March 10, 1954. She qualified as testamentary executrix and thereafter Dr. George B. Crozat, named legatee and executor in a prior will dated July 29, 1948,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Succession of PizzatiSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1950

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Succession of BradfordLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1961
  2. Chapman v. CampbellDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1960
  3. State v. CauseyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1998
  4. Succession of HollandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1958
  5. Succession of TallutoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1960

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