In re Billis' Will
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District ■Court, Parish of Grant; Wilbur Fisk Black-man, Judge. In the matter of the probate of the last will of Joseph Billis. From an order probating the will, the opponents appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
An instrument, written in French, and of which a translation is given below, was offered for probate as the ologra-phic last will of Joseph Billis, and the probate was opposed by W. B. Clark “curator for absent heirs and for Henry Denis, delegate for the French consul to represent absent heirs,” on the grounds that the instrument had not been written and signed by Billis, and “that the said last will contains a prohibited substitution and fidei commis-sum in favor of the illegitimate children of Joseph Billis, by which the universal legatee is charged to…
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