Legal Opinion

Landry v. Landry

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided December 2, 1940No. 34073PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit to annul a testament on the ground that the testator was mentally incapacitated. The plaintiff is appealing from a judgment rejecting his demand.

The testator was eighty years of age and was suffering from an ailment which caused severe pain at certain intervals; but he was .subject to immediate relief by the use of a simple contrivance; and he was never neglected. The physician who was attending him before and about the time when he made the will testified that the testator would not have been apt to attempt to make a will or to attend to any other…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Succession of MithoffSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  2. Succession of LambertSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1936
  3. Chandler v. BarrettSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1869
  4. Succession of VillaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1913
  5. Rostrup v. Succession of SpicerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1936

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. McCarty v. TrichelSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1950
  2. Succession of PizzatiSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1950
  3. Stewart v. BranchLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1971
  4. Succession of HollandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1958
  5. Succession of PattersonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1945

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