Succession of Moody

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Mrs. Annie Laurie Roumain Moody, wife of Thomas Franklin Moody, died on February 22, 1953. She left an olographic will dated January 3, 1953, in which she made her husband universal legatee. The present suit was instituted by Benjamin F. Roumain to have decreed null and void both this will of January 3, 1953, which had been admitted to probate, and an earlier olographic will left by the deceased dated November 1, 1952, in which her surviving husband was also made universal legatee. The ground on which Roumain attacked these wills was that the testatrix lacked testamentary…