Dumas v. Sanford

DAUKSCH, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order revoking letters of administration and granting probate of a lost will.

James H. Dumas died, leaving his wife Daisy. Sometime before his death, and before his marriage to Daisy, the decedent had purportedly made a will naming appel-lees as beneficiaries. The appellees are not lineal descendants of the decedent and are not legally related to the decedent. Appel-lee Emily Sanford is a daughter of a previous spouse of the decedent and appellee Jackie Sanford is her child.

The appellees were permitted by the trial court to show they had been…