Patten v. Patten

MR. JUDGE EDWARD T. DUSSAULT,

sitting for Chief Justice James T. Harrison, delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the District Court, Pondera County, denying admission to probate of a typewritten document purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Ella D. Patten, deceased, and denying that a handwritten instrument was a codicil republishing the Will.

Ella D. Patten, a widow, and a long-time resident of Pondera County, and mother of Donald W. Patten, proponent and appellant, and Robert D.- Patten, contestant and respondent herein, went to her…