Succession of Sandifer

AMY, Judge.

_JjThe testator executed a notarial will in which he bequeathed his entire estate to one of his eight children. The remaining siblings attacked the will alleging that their father could not read and that the procedure set forth in La.Civ.Code art. 1579 for testators who are unable to read was not followed. Following a bench trial, the trial court found that the testator was illiterate and declared his will null and void. The dative testamentary executor appeals, arguing that the trial court committed manifest error in finding that the testator could not read at the time he executed…