In re the Succession of Augustus

BLANCHE, Justice.*

This court granted writs to consider the correctness of a Court of Appeal ruling, 431 *731So.2d 73 (La.App. 1st Cir.1983), that a will confected by decedent, Melvin Augustus on March 10,1978, in the District of Columbia, was invalid for failure to comply with statutory form.

The will in question was offered for probate by decedent’s daughter, Mrs. Lillian Thompson. Decedent executed the will before a notary and two witnesses, during a 1978 visit to Washington, D.C. By the terms of this will, decedent specifically revoked a prior testament made in Louisiana in 1967. The testament…