In re Estate of Mitchell

Mr. Justice Dennis E. Sulliyan

delivered the opinion of the court.

A petition was filed in the probate court of Cook county by Hazel M. Grief en, defendant appellee, applying for letters testamentary on the estate of Harriet A. Mitchell, deceased, said petition being based on a purported carbon copy of a last will and testament of said deceased, the original copy of said last mil and testament is alleged to have been destroyed during the lifetime of the said testatrix, but it is alleged that said destruction was not performed, in compliance with the statute, citing Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, ch.…