Succession of Hagan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Mrs. Letitia Duffy Hagan. Proceedings to contest her will. Prom judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
By Division C, composed of Justices DAW-KINS, ST. PAUL, and THOMPSON.
DAWKINS, J.
Mrs. Letitia -Duffy was married to Peter J. Hagan March 25, 1913, and they lived as husband and wife in the city of New Orleans until her death July 21, 191S. On July 2Gth following Hagan presented to the judge who tried this case below a document purporting to be the last will and testament of his wife, written with a pen at the top of a small sheet of note paper, reading as follows:
“New Orleans Feby 11th, 1918.
“I will all I have to my husband.
“Mrs. L. Hagan”
—and asked to have the same probated. There was no…
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