Succession of Jones
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. Application by James Reed for the probate of the will of Mrs. H. R. Jones, deceased, From a decree admitting the will to probate, opponent James R. Mitehel appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BREAUX, O. J.
The last will and testament of the late Mrs. H. R. Jones, dated August 11, 1904, was presented for probate on the 22d day of May, 1906, by James Reed, executor. It is olographic in form. He also presented a codicil to the will in nuncupative form, dated August 18, 1905.
This application to probate the will and codicil met with the opposition of James R. Mitchel, the only heir of the testatrix, her son and sole offspring.
The grounds of the opposition are that Mrs. Jones was, and had been for some years prior to the date of the will, a sufferer from senile dementia; that she was an…
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