Succession of Drysdale
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thos. C. W. Ellis, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Julia Pike Drysdale. From an order allowing the probate of a will, the legal heirs appeal.
1Opinion
On Application for Rehearing.
PER GURIAM.
Many of the facts suggest “unusual” and “irregular” as characterizing the making of the purported will.
Witnesses have testified that to the last moment the decedent denied that she had made a will.
She executed it, it is asserted, without having consulted an attorney, although there was an attorney in Winona, Ganada, whom she had consulted in other matters.
Furthermore, the purported will was evidently written in accordance with legal advice, or by a person having knowledge of law. - The lawyer, or well-informed person, was not found.
It was written on a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Succession of DrysdaleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1908