Legal Opinion
Succession of Ryan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided February 14, 1955No. 41692Published
1Opinion
On Rehearing
HAMITER, Justice.
Under date of April 17, 1946, Mrs. Lurl Pipes Carter, then the widow of Richard M. Carter, made an olographic will in which she stated:
“I, Lurl Pipes Carter realizing the uncertainty of life, do hereby make this my last will and testament.
“I will and bequeath unto my niece, Ruth Johnson, all of the property that I die possessed of.
“I appoint my niece Ruth Johnson executrix of this my last will (with) full seizen and without bond.” (Parenthesis ours.)
Later Mrs. Carter married A. J. Bob Ryan and, during their marriage, she executed another olographic will reading as…
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