MATTER OF ESTATE OF CRADDOCK

No. 13957.

586 P.2d 292 (1978)

In the MATTER of the ESTATE of Oscar W. CRADDOCK, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided October 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward D. Yelsa argued, Anaconda, for appellant.

Burgess, Joyce, Prothero, Whelan & O'Leary, Thomas F. Joyce (argued), Butte, for respondent.


HASWELL, Chief Justice.

A purported holographic will was denied admission in probate by the District Court of Silver Bow County. Proponent appeals. We affirm.

The issue is whether the purported will, written with a pencil on a small piece of paper, is entirely in decedent's handwriting, qualifying it as a valid holographic will. The focus of this issue is whether blue penciled cross-outs, obliterating part of the sentence, were made by decedent.

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