Lebleu v. Manning

PONDER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rejecting the plaintiffs’ demand to annul an olographic will on the ground that the decedent could not read and write and therefore did not understand the purport of the will.

In this suit the plaintiffs, several collateral heirs, are seeking to annul the olographic will of Migual Pujol, decedent, wherein another collateral heir, Charles J. Manning, was named universal legatee and sent into possession of the estate of the decedent, on the ground that the decedent could not read and write and therefore did not understand the purport of the will.…