Matter of Estate of Croft

ROONEY, Justice.

Appellee executor (hereinafter referred to as “Estate”) presented for probate the last will and testament of Willard Jennings Croft, deceased (hereinafter referred to as “Croft”), together with the first and second codicils thereto. Appellant, Croft’s only child, contested the validity of the second codicil. The will was dated October 26, 1981. It consisted of nine articles, and it designated appellant as executor and as residuary beneficiary. The first codicil was dated March 29,1982, and only changed the executor from appellant to a friend, Gordon W. Taylor, Sr. The second…