Elsworth v. Rini

Alice I. McCrary died in Mobile County on September 16, 1976. On March 11, 1977, *954Cecelia T. Rini filed a petition for letters of administration wherein she alleged in substance that she was the sole heir at law and next of kin of Alice I. McCrary. She asked the probate court to grant letters of administration on the estate to Michael F. Scheuermann, which the court did on March 21, 1977.

On April 1, 1977, Herbert Elsworth filed a motion to stay the administration in the probate court, alleging that the decedent had left a last will, duly executed, but that the same had been lost or destroyed…