Trim v. Daniels

OPINION

PRICE, Justice

(Assigned).

This appeal is from a summary judgment, holding that a writing on the back of a greeting card constituted a valid holographic will.

On October 19, 1989, Bill Hayes Daniels was killed in an automobile/train collision. At the time, he was 36 years old and a practicing attorney. On December 14, 1989, Verneice Daniels filed an application to probate a holographic will. The will was probated as a muniment of title on January 3,1990. It consists of a short declaration, handwritten on the backside of a printed greeting card. It reads as follows:

Last Wifi:

I leave…