Horton v. Burch

Hunstein, Justice.

In May 1992, Mary Frances Burch Horton executed an original will and two duplicates thereof, 1 devising all of her real property to a neighbor, Earnest Freeman. All three documents were executed with the same formality and contain the original signatures of the testator and witnesses. Ms. Horton took the original and one duplicate while her attorney kept the remaining duplicate. In 1993, Ms. Horton executed a codicil to her will in order to leave a table to her church. Shortly after her death in June 1994, her duplicate of the will was found in her safety deposit box, but…