In re Will of Brown

By Judge Clifford R. Weckstein

On this 15th day of August 2012, came Allie B. Kreger, III, Executor of the Estate of Geraldine Lake Brown, deceased. He has appealed the Clerk’s order declining to probate a document as a codicil to the Last Will and Testament of Geraldine Lake Brown, deceased. In accordance with Virginia Code § 64.1-78, the Clerk has entered an order allowing this appeal as a matter of right.

The matter was docketed as a preferred cause for trial and was timely tried. As Va. Code § 64.1-78 provides, the Court heard the matter de novo, as though it had been presented to the Court…