In Re the Estate of Kleinman

HOWE, Chief Justice:

The Humane Society of Utah appeals from a district court judgment construing two handwritten documents prepared by Mary Miles Kleinman, now deceased. The court held that these documents, which purported to bequeath money to the Humane Society of Utah and the testator’s church, merely constituted memoranda disposing of tangible personal property as permitted by a provision of her 1986 will, pursuant to Utah Code Ann. § 75-2-513, and that they did not constitute separate holographic wills authorized by section 75-2-503. The court concluded that the bequests of money made in…