Legal Opinion

Succession of Riggio

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided September 28, 1981No. 81-C-0931PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

405 So.2d 513 (1981)

Succession of Felix Anthony RIGGIO.

No. 81-C-0931.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 28, 1981.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1981.

Iddo Pittman, Jr., Hammond, for plaintiff-applicant.

Timothy R. Higgins, Hammond, for defendant-respondent.

CALOGERO, Justice.

Relators in this Court, nine of the ten children of Felix Anthony Riggio, challenge the holding of the trial court, which was affirmed by the Court of Appeal, that their father possessed testamentary capacity on March 31, 1976, the date of execution of a statutory will.

Felix Anthony Riggio died in a nursing home in…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Fried v. BradleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1951
  2. Succession of MithoffSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  3. Succession of SchmidtSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1951
  4. Succession of YeatesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1948

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Succession of LyonsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1984
  2. Succession of EllisLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1986
  3. Succession of RiggioLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1985
  4. Borne v. BrownLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1986
  5. Succession of LauniusLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1987

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