Succession of Landry

CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

This appeal involves a will contest in which the children of the testator’s first marriage assert their father lacked testamentary capacity when he signed his will from his hospital bed a few hours before his death. From judgment upholding the validity of the testament, the opponents of the will appeal.

William Burton Landry, M.D., the testator, expired at 2:27 a.m. on May 18,1988, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cause of death was listed on the death certificate as cardiopulmonary arrest. He had been brought to the hospital less…