Matter of Rogers

RAMEY, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a bench trial judgment in favor of a will contestant in which the trial court ruled that a 1959 document was not a valid testamentary instrument, thus necessitating the administration of an estate under the laws of intestate succession. Dollie R. Shelton, decedent’s sister, had offered Annie B. Rogers’s purported 1959 holographic will as a muniment of title; it was admitted to probate on March 2, 1992. Subsequently, decedent’s nephew, Raymond Rogers, filed an action contending that Annie B. Rogers had died intestate and seeking a declaration that a…