Succession of Holms

HALL, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Public Administrator for the Parish of Orleans from a judgment of the District Court “ordering the probate of the olographic will made by the decedent, Mrs. Ruby L. Franks, on the 16th of January, 1960 * * * which olographic will has been lost or mislaid.”

A brief statement of the pleadings is helpful to an understanding of the case.

On August 14, 1963 Mrs. Charles Sourthese filed a petition through the law firm of Polack, Rosenberg, Gex & Ritten-berg praying that a notary public be appointed to search for the will of the decedent, Mrs. Ruby L. Holms, widow…