Matter of Estate of Gudmunsen

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court, Still-water County, refusing to admit to probate the purported holographic will of Malinus E. Gudmunsen, deceased.

Malinus E. Gudmunsen died as a result of a fire in his farm home near Rapelje, Montana. The death certificate set the date of death as December 14, 1972.

On January 10, 1973, Bruce líenderson, respondent, was appointed special administrator of the estate of Malinus E. Gudmunsen. In January, 1973, respondent went to Gudmunsen’s farm house and gathered what…