IN RE ESTATE OF KERO

No. 91-02011.

591 So.2d 675 (1992)

In re ESTATE OF Georgeina KERO, a/k/a Georgiana Kero, Deceased, Dolores BURY, Appellant, v. Marlene LaCount DiLEGGE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Herb, Hale P. Saph, III, and C. Richard Shamel, Jr., Deerfield Beach, for appellant.

Robert J. O'Toole and Robert A. Urban, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

At issue here is whether an unsigned carbon copy may be used to establish and probate a lost will. In petitioning the court to establish a lost or destroyed will, appellant Bury filed a carbon copy of the last will of the decedent, but which was unsigned by any witnesses or the testatrix. She supported her petition by testimony from the lawyer who drafted the will and who was also a subscribing witness to the original. The lawyer testified that the original...

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