Succession of Barouquet

REGAN, Judge.

Joseph Michael Dee, who was named testamentary executor and residual legatee in a will executed by Honorine Barouquet, widow of Eugene Barrieu, now deceased, filed a petition to probate this will, made in the form prescribed by LSA-R.S. 9:2442, which is generally referred to as a statutory will.

The probate thereof was opposed by Mrs. Marie Duvio, divorced wife of Joseph Dee and Jeanne Duvio, wife of Victor Bar-rousse, who in substance contended that the will was invalid because the formalities created by the statute were not complied with in that the testatrix did not sign each…