MATTER OF ESTATE OF TONG

No. 80CA0069.

619 P.2d 91 (1980)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Frank C. TONG, Deceased. Frank Shane TONG, Proponent-Appellant, v. Shirley Ann TONG, Personal Representative, Respondent-Appellee.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

October 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Bauer, Westminster, for proponent-appellant.

Bettenberg, Stipech, Miller, Makkai & Dowdle, Dennis M. Miller, Denver, for respondent-appellee.


KIRSHBAUM, Judge.

Proponent, Frank S. Tong, appeals an order of the trial court refusing admission to probate of two instruments and denying claimant's request to exhume the body of decedent, Frank C. Tong, for purposes of an autopsy. We affirm the denial of the admission of the documents to probate, reverse the denial of the request for exhumation, and remand the cause for further proceedings.

The record reveals that the two documents in question are identical...

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