Estate of Thompson

An appeal from an order admitting to .probate an alleged lost or destroyed will. The court found that the will of Luella Thompson, deceased, was fraudulently destroyed by her husband, appellant herein, following her death. The appeal involves an attack upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the findings and decree establishing the existence of the will, its effectiveness at the time of death and its loss or destruction thereafter.

A copy of the will, prepared from recollection by the attorney who originally drew it, was admitted in evidence. It bequeathed decedent’s entire estate…