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BD. OF TRUSTEES OF U. OF ALA. v. CALHOUN

86-98.

514 So.2d 895 (1987)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA v. John C. CALHOUN, Jr., as administrator of the estate of Myrtle Crouch Bourziel.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 11, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Potts, George B. Gordon, and Robert H. Woodrow, Jr., Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

John C. Calhoun, Jr., Birmingham, pro se.

Thomas E. Reynolds of Haskell, Slaughter & Young, Birmingham, as Guardian ad Litem for the unknown and unascertained heirs of Myrtle Crouch Bourziel.

Rufus O. Jefferson and Richard Burton Bush, Tallahassee, Fla., amicus curiae in support of appellee Nellie Rainey Gardner, a potential heir of Myrtle Crouch Bourziel.

SHORES, Justice.

This is a will contest case. The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (hereinafter "Trustees"), the proponents of the will, appeal from an order of the Probate Court of Jefferson County holding that Myrtle Crouch Bourziel had revoked her 1983 will and 1985 codicil by removing the signature page from the instrument and thus died intestate. We affirm.

The evidence shows that Mrs. Bourziel was an astute and strong-willed lady until...

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