Canody v. Hamblin

OPINION BY JUSTICE STEPHEN R. McCULLOUGH

Robert Lee Canody, II, challenges the trial court's order admitting a will to probate. More specifically, he contends that the court erred in considering testimony to establish the testamentary nature of the pages proffered for probate and erred in failing to require the proponent of the will to authenticate all three pages of the document. The trial court properly admitted testimony to refute the claim that the will was fraudulent and correctly declined to adopt a novel and more rigorous standard for admitting a will to probate. Therefore, we affirm…