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IN RE ESTATE OF CHASTAIN

No. E2011-01442-SC-R11-CV

401 S.W.3d 612 (2012)

In re ESTATE OF Thomas Grady CHASTAIN.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

November 16, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ginger Wilson Buchanan , Cleveland, Tennessee, for the appellant, June Chastain Patterson.

George McCoin , Cleveland, Tennessee, and Thomas F. Bloom , Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellees, Trent Chastain and Adrian Chastain.

OPINION

CORNELIA A. CLARK, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which GARY R. WADE, C.J., and JANICE M. HOLDER, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

The issue in this appeal is whether the statutory requirements for execution of an attested will prescribed by Tennessee Code Annotated section 32-1-104(1) (2007) were satisfied when the decedent failed to sign the two-page will but signed a one-page affidavit of attesting witnesses. We...

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