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IN RE ESTATE OF HOPKINS

391 Pa.Super. 211 (1990)

570 A.2d 1058

In re ESTATE OF Edna A. HOPKINS. Appeal of MID-STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, Administrator of the Estate of Ward W. Hopkins.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed February 13, 1990.

Petition for Allowance of Appeal Denied July 2, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Wicks, Hollidaysburg, for appellant.

Ralph T. Forr, Jr., Altoona, for Hopkins, appellee and for Greiner and Krywokulski, participating parties.

John F. Sullivan, Altoona, for Bishop Guilfoyle High School, participating party.

Vernon R. Byrd, Jr., Philadelphia, for Mid-State Bank, participating party.

Before DEL SOLE, KELLY and HESTER, JJ.

HESTER, Judge:

The issue presented in this appeal is whether an undated document was admitted correctly to probate as a last will and testament. We conclude that since the document fails to dispose of any of decedent's assests and since the document was not signed at the end, it was admitted incorrectly to probate. Accordingly, we reverse.

On December 16, 1987, the Register of Wills of Blair County admitted a handwritten document to probate as the last will...

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