Gee v. Stephens

STATON, Judge.

Georgia Gee appeals an adverse judgment, presenting us with the sole issue of whether the trial court erred in probating a photocopy of the decedent's will.

We reverse.

Mattie Lue Borom died on October 3, 1987. The original copy of her will, executed on August 24, 1983 and kept in a safe deposit box at the Indiana Harbor branch of the First National Bank of East Chicago, could not be located after her death. On November 7, 1987 Borom's niece, Georgia Gee, filed a Petition for Issuance of Letters of Administration and was thereafter appointed administratrix of the estate. Ralph…