MATTER OF ESTATE OF WEDEBERG

No. 4-91-0483.

589 N.E.2d 1000 (1992)

226 Ill. App.3d 948

168 Ill.Dec. 600

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Opal WEDEBERG, Deceased (William Pollock and Mary Jane Pollock, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Rock Goertz, Paul Stone, Ruth Stone, Russell Reeder, Sandra Reeder, Helen Applegate, Diane Mohr, Ida Frances Harrington, Dennis Hiltebrand, Art Woodrum, Veta Slocombe, Mary Hill, Dee Tozer, Cliff Tozer, Esther Circle of King's Daughters, Harold Meese, Bill Meese, Margaret Sorenson, Jean Winkler, Tom Stone, Joyce Albright, Randy Stone, Ronnie Stone, Sam Wood, Lanny Wood, LaDonna Thompson, Amy Smith, Margaret Crabtree, Velma Sprague, Pauline Leasman, Mae Krueger, Jan E. Bulthaus, Jon E. Robinson, Loa Catron, Isla Johnson, Helen Hoing, Ruby Larson, Helen Maurer, Cecil Mabe, Danielle Spencer, Byron Spencer, Debbie Phillips, Alex Ruzes, Marietta Ruzes, Arah Dean Woolaver, Alice Robinson, Marge Garrard, Elms Nursing Home, Mrs. Leroy Cumming, Don Robinson, Cyrus E. Robinson, Donna Park, Martha Howe, Jeff Thompson, Nancy Read, Judy Diemer, Jolene Frazer, Jerry Kirby, Richard Robinson, Joanne Ewing, David Robinson, Steven Robinson, Michael Robinson, Teresa Robinson, Marcia Wood, Herble Pennock, Pauline Rutzen, Kenneth Robinson, Keith Robinson, Caroline Robinson Lenth, Sherrill Robinson Howell, Order of the Eastern Star, Springfield Retired Teachers Organization, Roger Schmuck, Russell Garrard, Macomb BPW, Lambda Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, Western Illinois University Alumni Fund, Respondents; Darleen Burkhart, Dorothy Wood, Dorothy Watson, Helen Grate, Marcella Thompson, Loren K. Robinson, Memorial Medical Center, and Union National Bank of Macomb, Illinois, Respondents-Appellants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

March 19, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce J. Biagini, Flack, McRaven & Stephens, Macomb, for Union Nat. Bank of Macomb.

Brown, Hay & Stephens, Robert Stuart, Jr., Emmet A. Fairfield, Springfield, for Memorial Medical Center, etc.

March & McMillan, P.C., Macomb, for petitioners-appellees.


Presiding Justice GREEN delivered the opinion of the court:

Section 4-3 of the Probate Act of 1975 (Act) requires that for a writing to be a valid will, it must be "signed by the testator or by some person in [her] presence and by [her] direction" (Ill.Rev.Stat.1987, ch. 110½, par. 4-3). This case concerns a document admittedly handwritten by a decedent in all respects except in connection with the signature of witnesses. No contention is made that the document...

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