Succession of Raiford

404 So.2d 251 (1981)

SUCCESSION OF Melissa Mary RAIFORD.

No. 81-C-0552.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 8, 1981.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1981.

Allen B. Pierson, Jr., of Pierson, Drake & Scott, Pontchatoula, for plaintiff-applicant.

Iddo Pittman, Jr. and James D. Johnson, of Pittman & Matheny, Hammond, for defendant-respondent.

WATSON, Justice.

This is a dispute about whether a notation, allegedly written by Melissa Mary Raiford, has a sufficiently certain date to constitute a valid olographic will.

FACTS

Melissa Mary Raiford executed a statutory will on March 18, 1963, bequeathing all of her…