Succession of Talbot
Supreme Court of Louisiana
1Opinion of the Court
530 So.2d 1132 (1988)
SUCCESSION OF Robert Mirkil TALBOT.
No. 88-C-0296.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
September 12, 1988.
Rehearing Denied October 20, 1988.
Sidney Blitzer, Jr., Richard Zimmerman, Jr., Kantrow, Spaht, Weaver & Blitzer, A.P.L.C., Baton Rouge, for applicant.
Eugene Groves, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for respondent.
DENNIS, Justice.
The question presented is whether a testator's intentional destruction of one of the multiple originals of his will creates a presumption that he intended to revoke all of the other copies of the testament, and, if so, whether in the…
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