In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of Field

Slater, S.

From an examination of the petition herein, it appears that the decedent executed her will in duplicate and that the paper herein offered for probate is one of the duplicates. An examination of the paper itself reveals that it is a carbon or second carbon copy and not an original or first copy as one would expect to find a last will and testament to be, if executed in one part only, and also that decedent stated in the In Testimonium clause therein that she executed it in duplicate. The petition further states that the other duplicate part of the instrument was in the personal…