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SUCCESSION OF RAIFORD

No. 13621.

393 So.2d 398 (1980)

SUCCESSION of Melissa Mary RAIFORD.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 26, 1981.

Writ Granted April 6, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Iddo Pittman, Jr., Hammond, for Marie Raiford, Gwendolyn Brown Cooper, George Allen Cooper, and Deborah Cooper Gill.

Allen B. Pierson, Jr., Ponchatoula, for Elzy Peter Raiford.

Allen B. Pierson, Jr., Ponchatoula, for Floyd Travis Lavigne and Margaret Raiford Lavigne.

Before LOTTINGER, PONDER and COLE, JJ.

PONDER, Judge.

This is a contest of will case.

The issue is the validity of an olographic will, dated invalid by the trial court. We reverse.

In 1963, testatrix made a statutory will leaving her estate to her brother. Appellants, Marie Raiford, Gwendolyn Brown Cooper, George Allen Cooper and Deborah Gwen Cooper Gill contend the statutory will was revoked by the following, written in pencil in a small booklet:

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