Haase v. Robicheaux

REDMANN, Judge.

Some of decedent’s legal heirs appeal from a judgment upholding her one-page statutory will against their attack. They argue the will is invalid because her signature appears after the attestation when the statute requires it “at the end of the will”; because she could not read without a magnifying lens and did not have such a lens with her at its execution; and because she lacked testamentary capacity. We affirm.

The requirement of the testatrix’s signature “at the end of the will,” La.R.S. 9:2442 (as amended, Acts 1974 No. 246), must be held to be met by her signature after…