Estate of Blake v. Benza

OPINION

WREN, Judge.

The primary issue raised in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in admitting into probate a letter as a holographic will. We find no error in the admission and, therefore, affirm the trial court.

The decedent, Harry J. Blake, was raised in Chicago by an aunt and married one of the aunt’s daughters, Edna. Edna’s sister, Gladys Kozla, her husband William, and their daughters, Judith Ann Sterbenz and Marilyn Tucker Hams (decedent’s nieces), are the appellants (contestants) in this action. The daughter of Blake’s deceased brother, LaVergne Benza (Benza), also a niece of…