Fakouri v. Cadais

LEE, Circuit Judge.

In our original opinion herein, reported in 147 F.2d 667, 675, we analyzed the applicable jurisprudence of .Louisiana and reached the conclusion that the nuncupative will by public act was null and void because it did not “state that it was dictated to the notary and by him written down as dictated in the presence of the witnesses.”

By petition for rehearing appellant strongly urges that we failed properly to apply the law of Louisiana. It is said that we did not give effect to that line of judicial decisions culminating in Duhon v. Duhon, 161 La. 499, 109 So. 44, which hold…