Leonard v. Woodruff

PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal, transferred to this court pursuant to § 12-2-7(6), Ala.Code 1975, arises from proceedings removed from the Cleburne Probate Court to the Cleburne Circuit Court involving the estate of Beatrice Calhelhas (“the decedent”), who died testate on July 29, 2010. The decedent’s will named as executrix one of her five daughters, Beatrice Woodraff (“the executrix”), and the executrix petitioned the probate court to probate the will and to issue letters testamentary in October 2010. At the January 2011 hearing on that petition, another of the decedent’s daughters, Josephine…