Succession of Shows
Supreme Court of Louisiana
1Opinion of the Court
FOURNET, Chief Justice.
This case involves the validity of a document dated “Dec 3-61”, purporting to be the last will and testament of Mrs. Mae Viola Cooper Shows, who died leaving no ascendants or descendants, in which is written the words “All to My Sister” and signed by the decedent 1 , and is now before us on a writ of certiorari granted on the application of the proponent, Mrs. Daisy Cooper Granier, the sole surviving sister of Mrs. Shows, to review the judgment of the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, affirming the judgment of the district court, maintaining the opposition of nephews and…
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