Matter of Estate of Wooten

Robert J. Grafft, Sr., appeals from an order of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Missoula County. The order removed Grafft as personal representative of the estate of Gille V. Wooten and declared that Grafft had only a life estate in certain real property which Wooten was in the process of selling at the time of his death.

Gille Wooten, an attorney, made and executed a holographic will on February 13,1976. The pertinent provisions of the will are set forth below:

“Third Paragraph

“I nominate, constitute, and appoint Robert J. Grafft, Sr. to act as and to be my Executor, to…