Fry v. Edwards

The plaintiff, Clarence W. Fry, sole beneficiary under a will of Clarence P. Edwards, deceased, petitioned the circuit court to admit to probate a conformed copy of the will, the original of which had disappeared. The circuit court refused to admit the conformed copy of the will to probate and plaintiff appeals.

Clarence P. Edwards, a retired rancher who lived in Condon, Oregon, died in a nursing home in The Dalles, Oregon, on Wednesday, April 9, 1969. At the time of his death he had one brother — Fred Edwards, the administrator of decedent’s estate and defendant *473herein — two sisters and some…