Estate of Bower (1938)

This is an appeal from an order admitting a document to probate as the last will and testament of the decedent and appointing respondent administratrix with the will annexed. The document bears date of March 4, 1932, and purports to devise the decedent’s entire estate to respondent, a stranger to the blood. It was admitted to probate as an holographic will, the court below finding that it was “entirely written, dated and signed by the hand of the said decedent”. The contestant and appellant is a brother of the decedent who has contended at all times that the document is invalid as an…