Clanton v. Shattuck

McCALEB, Justice.

Benjamin M. Foster committed suicide in the city of Shreveport on April 10, 1944 by shooting himself with a pistol. The day before he took his life he made an olographic will in which he bequeathed all of his property (except his dog and pistol, which he devised to one C. A. Floyd of Atlanta, Georgia, and two $25 war bonds) to Mrs. June Thurman Shattuck of Lake Charles.

In due course, Mrs. Shattuck opened the succession of Foster in the First Judicial District Court for the Parish of Caddo and caused the will to be probated. She applied for letters and was appointed dative…