Matter of Estate of Langlie

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

This appeal is on an order admitting for probate copies of Gust Langlie’s 1979 Will and 1980 Codicil. The original copies of the instruments were not found. It is undisputed both documents were lawfully executed. Appellant, decedent’s niece, con tends that the lost Will and Codicil were destroyed and revoked, and that the trial court erred in a contrary finding. We affirm.

FACTS

Gust Langlie died on May 28,1983, at the age of 85. His survivors included appellant, Ella Henjum, one of the children of Langlie’s deceased brother; and respondent, Eugene Langlie, one of the…