Heffner v. Heffner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

This appeal is from the judgment of the lower court annulling the will, olographic in form, of William Heffner, rendered in the suit of his collateral heirs seeking to set it aside. The ground of attack sustained by the judgment was that the will has no date. Omitting its dispositions the will is in this form:

“State of Louisiana,

“ Caddo parish,

“ Written

dated and signed in my own handwriting, on this day of June, 1898.

“William Heffner.”

The Oode defines the olographic will to be that written, dated and signed by the testator himself. The date,…