Estate of: I. Wilner Appeal of: Baker, L.

OPINION

Chief Justice SAYLOR.1

In this appeal by allowance, we consider the meaning and proper application of the statutory two-witness rule for proving a will where the original, executed will is lost.

This dispute arises from an attempt to enter a copy of a lost will into probate. According to the credited testimony and other evidence presented in the orphans’ court, Isabel Wilner (“Decedent”), born in 1920, died at age 91 in March 2011. She was a lifelong Episcopalian and, during her career as a librarian and author of children’s books, she lived in or near Baltimore, Maryland, where she…