Case Name: P. O. Hebert, Tutor, etc., v. J. G. Winn et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1872-05
Citations: 24 La. Ann. 385
Docket Number: No. 3859
Parties: P. O. Hebert, Tutor, etc., v. J. G. Winn et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 385–390

Head Matter:
No. 3859.
P. O. Hebert, Tutor, etc., v. J. G. Winn et als.
A person addicted to intemperance and subject to consequent fits of mental derangement, may make a will, if lie be compos mentis at tlie time, and tlie Irard6n falls upon those who assail such a will to show the existing insanity or incapacity of the testator at the time.
A capricious bequest in a will does not constitute proof of insanity in the testator.
Where a will has been made by a citizen of this State, while in another State of the Union, and has been admitted to probate there, or elsewhere before a court of competent jurisdiction, the presumption is that the will was executed and probated in accordance with the law of such State or place, and the party who attacks it, whether directly or indirectly, must defeat such presumption by sufficient proof.
APPEAL from the Parish Court of Iberville. Adonis Petit, Parish. Judge.
Mathews & Robertson, for plaintiff. Sims, Barrow & Pope, and A. & JS. B. Talbot, for defendants.

Opinion:
Howell, J.
A motion to dismiss this appeal, on several grounds, accompanies tlie record, but does not seem to be urged by the movers. An examination of the grounds, however, satisfies us that they are insufficient. The delay in filing the transcript arose from tlie necessity of the appellants to take out a mandamus upon the clerk of the lower court. Tlie parties are all properly before the court, the appeal brought up having been taken on motion in open court at the same time when the judgment was rendered, and the appeal bond is in due form and signed by the security.
Motion refused.