In Re Estate of Marcucci

We granted leave to appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court, First District. (In re Estate of Marcucci (1971), 5 Ill. App. 3d 484.) The prime issue presented is the scope of proceedings brought under section 69 of the Probate Act to admit a will to probate. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 3, par. 69.) That section provides:

“When each of 2 attesting witnesses to a will testifies before the court (a) that he was present and saw the testator or some person in his presence and by his direction sign the will in the presence of the witness or that the testator acknowledged it to the witness as his…