Legal Opinion

Succession of Rowley

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided December 11, 1979No. 10819PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

SCHOTT, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the suit of Dorothy Rawley Davis in which she asserted that the January 9, 1976, last will and testament of decedent was invalid. The will was in the form authorized by LSA-R.S. 9:2442 and the issue is over the notary’s use of a scribbled set of circles or swirls on the superscription instead of a legible signature as he had used when he took his oath as a Notary Public several years before the will in question was written.

Copies of the document indicate clearly that the scribble used by the notary on this will is not the same as the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Succession of DomingLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1963

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Succession of RowleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1980

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