Succession of Pizzati
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge. In the matter of the final account of John A. Woodville, testamentary executor under the will of Salvatore Pizzati, deceased, opposed by Robert Woodville, legatee, Mrs. Salvatore Pizzati, widow in community, Marco Antonio Pizzati, an adopted son, Doctor T. R. Rudolph, Horace H. Newman, and certain allied charities.
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Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge. In the matter of the final account of John A. Woodville, testamentary executor under the will of Salvatore Pizzati, deceased, opposed by Robert Woodville, legatee, Mrs. Salvatore Pizzati, widow in community, Marco Antonio Pizzati, an adopted son, Doctor T. R. Rudolph, Horace H. Newman, and certain allied charities. From the judgment on opposition to .final account, the executor, Robert Woodville, legatee, the widow, adopted son, Dr. Rudolph, Horace H. Newman, and the several particular legatees under previous wills…
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The de cujus left six wills, all in nuncupative by public act form, dated, respectively, March, 1906, January, 1910, January, 1911, June, 1911, October, 1911, and December, 1915, and all, except the first two by act before John A. Woodville, who is testamentary executor, and the son of Robert Woodville, the beneficiary under the last four wills, and was the intimate friend and legal adviser of the de cujus in the last five years of his life, from January, 1911, to the time of his death, December, 1915.
The will of March, 1906, omitting mere formal parts, reads as follows:
“I declare that my…
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