Estate of Brady

More than 11 years after the intestate distribution of decedent’s estate petitioner, a sister, commenced this proceeding to require the surviving administrator of the estate to produce a document alleged to be the last will of the decedent and for probate of that document as his will. The trial court ordered that the petition “for production of will be denied,” and this appeal followed.

After Mr. Brady’s death a number of papers, some holographic and some typewritten, concerned with the testamentary disposition of his estate, were discovered. All of these were given directly to the attorney…