DAUL v. GOFF

No. 2D99-1642.

754 So.2d 847 (2000)

Roger DAUL, Dolores E. Carmichael and Lois Mae Nies, Appellants, v. Howard GOFF, Personal Representative of the Estate of Senarita Manders, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 7, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David K. Oaks of David K. Oaks, P.A., Punta Gorda, for Appellants.

Sandra Sanders, Arcadia, for Appellee.


NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Mr. Daul, Ms. Carmichael and Ms. Nies, the children and heirs of Senarita Manders, challenge the circuit court's admission of a copy of Ms. Manders's lost will to probate. We reverse because Mr. Goff, who petitioned to establish the lost will, did not present competent substantial evidence sufficient to overcome the presumption that the original will had been revoked.

In 1992, Manders executed a will excluding her children and naming the...

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