Pickens v. Estate of Fenn

SELLERS, Justice.

Janice Pickens appeals from the order of the Elmore Probate Court denying the admission to probate of a will on the basis that the will was not signed by at least two witnesses as required by § 43-8-131, Ala. Code 1975. We reverse and remand.

*36I. Facts

Donald Harrison Fenn died on June 27, 2016. Fenn left a will, purportedly executed by him on November 24, 2015, leaving all of his property to Pickens and naming her as his personal representative.1

On July 6, 2016, Jackson B. Dismukes, one of Fenn's friends, filed a petition for letters of administration, asserting that Fenn had…