Legal Opinion

Succession of Pope

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 29, 1956No. 42398PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McCALEB, Justice.

This appeal involves the validity of a certain judgment of the Twenty-First Judicial District Court for the Parish of Livingston, which annulled and vacated a previous judgment of that court probating as a last will and testament a document executed by the deceased, Albert Pope, on March 8, 1954, naming Paul Farmer, J. K. Thurman, Fuqua C. Sibley, James E. Curtis, Jr., and J. W. Smith, Jr., as trustees and executors of his estate. The salient facts of the case are as follows:

On June 16, 1953, Albert Pope executed a typewritten will purportedly in the form provided by Act 66…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Succession of FeitelSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1937
  2. Rivet v. BattistellaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  3. Succession of ManionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1918
  4. In Re AndrusSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1952
  5. Succession of PriceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1941

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Succession of WallaceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1991
  2. Succession of EckSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1957
  3. Succession of ZatarainLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1962
  4. Succession of KilpatrickLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1978
  5. State Ex Rel. Seifert v. SmithSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1961

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