Ivey v. Bailey

This is a suit to annul an instrument that was probated as the holographic will of Mrs. Rosanna Henderson Bailey, who died in Rap-ides parish on the 13th of March, 1930. The plaintiffs are her collateral relations and heirs at law. They charge that the instrument in question is not in Airs. Bailey’s handwriting, and that it was entirely written by some one else. The defendant is the husband of Mrs. Bailey and is made her universal legatee in the instrument in contest. The district judge, who, in the ex parte proceeding, had ordered the instrument probated as the will of Airs. Bailey, decided…