Estate of Wilner
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
FORD ELLIOTT, P.J.E.:
Appellant, Dana Wilner, comes before us appealing the granting of a petition to probate a copy of a lost will of her aunt, Isabel Wilner, the deceased. Finding that the copy was not supported by sufficient proof to permit probate, we are constrained to reverse.
The procedural and factual summary found in the trial court’s opinion accurately reflects the assembled record and we adopt it as our own:
Isabel Wilner (hereinafter “Decedent”), a resident of Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, died on March 16, 2011, at the age of ninety-one (91). On May 5, 2011 Linda Baker…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Estate of BrownSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
- Harrison's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1934
- Hodgson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- In Re Estate of MillerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
- In Re Estate of MammanaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
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