In Re Lawrence

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans Court probating the will of Charles Edgar Lawrence, who died February 4th, 1945. In May, 1936, decedent executed the will in question, in duplicate, taking one copy with him and leaving the other with the counsel who drew it. The original, in the possession of decedent, has disappeared; the duplicate was produced and used to probate the original as a lost will. Before the institution of the proceedings to probate the will, letters of administration had been issued to a nephew of decedent, which were revoked on the probate.

The presumption is that…