In re the Estate of Wilson

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JONES, Presiding Judge:

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order admitting a lost holographic will to probate. Because the proof adduced at trial does not meet the legal standard for admission of a lost will, the cause must be reversed.

Loretta Hamilton Wilson died on September 18, 1992. Thomas Wilson, her husband filed a Petition to probate her holographic will. The court appointed Mr. Wilson as special administrator.

The will, dated June 22, 1992, did not have the final page showing the signatures or the distribution provisions. It appears to have been torn (by unknown…