In Re Estate of Hopkins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
HESTER, Judge:
The issue presented in this appeal is whether an undated document was admitted correctly to probate as a last will and testament. We conclude that since the document fails to dispose of any of decedent’s assests and since the document was not signed at the end, it was admitted incorrectly to probate. Accordingly, we reverse.
On December 16, 1987, the Register of Wills of Blair County admitted a handwritten document to probate as the last will and testament of Edna A. Hopkins, deceased. The document, which is written on lined notepad paper, states as follows:
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