In Re Roeder's Estate

BICKLEY, Chief Justice.

Contestees, appellants here, filed for probate an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of H. B. Roeder in the Probate Court of Bernalillo County. Appellees opposed probate of the purported will upon the contention that the first page thereof had been .substituted, for an original first page without the essentials of signing and witnessing as required by § 154-105, N.M.S.A., 1929 Comp. The Probate Court admitted the instrument to probate. After appeal to the district court, the latter found, as evidence of a possible substitution of a different first…