Rogel v. Johnson

LEWIS, Judge.

On 15 September 1992, plaintiff, the executrix of the estate of William Smith Lanyon Lamparter, filed this declaratory judgment action seeking a determination of whether the decedent died testate, and, if so, what the terms of his will were. Plaintiff attached three documents to the complaint: (1) Exhibit A, a typewritten, signed and witnessed document entitled “Will”; (2) Exhibit B, a handwritten document entitled “Codicil to My Will”; and (3) Exhibit *241C, a handwritten document beginning, “In the Name of God! Amen!” Plaintiff had offered the first document, Exhibit A, for probate…