Succession of Lanata

The primary question presented for determination in this litigation — one that is res novo in the jurisprudence of this State — is whether or not a formal judgment of interdiction ipso facto incapacitates the interdict to dispose of his property by donation mortis causa.

Two appeals bring this succession matter before us. In one of the proceedings (No. 37,248) Mrs. Emma Lanata Hermann, a sister of the decedent and testator, John Sidney Lanata, is appealing from a judgment that dismissed her suit attacking the will, the court having sustained an exception of no cause of action directed at the…