Self v. Schooling

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Judge.

The appeal is taken from a judgment finding that neither of two instruments, one dated in 1967 and the other in 1968, was the last will of Daisy Winard Burdon, but that an instrument dated November 21, 1961, was her last will. The appellant is the proponent of the 1967 and 1968 wills. Appellant stood to take $2,000 under the 1961 will; whereas, she would take the entire estate ($150,000) under either the 1967 or 1968 will. Clearly she was interested in establishing the validity of either of the last two wills.

At the time of her death on October 31, 1968, testator…