WILLS-LETTERS AS HOLOGRAPHIC WILLS-TESTAMENTARY INTENT

Authors

Charles M. Soller, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

A church trustee offered for probate as decedent's will a letter wholly written, dated, and signed in the handwriting of decedent. The letter was addressed to proponent, and read: "I am sending you a cashier's check for the $5000.00 I wrote you about last week. Now as to my heirs-I have three nieces, and a husband who has had enough. I'm not interested in any of them. If I leave $5.00 or $5,000.00 I want the church to have it." Probate was denied, and proponent appealed. Held, the letter was entitled to probate. De Lapp v. Anderson, .(Ky. 1947) 203 S.W. (2d) 388.

Recommended Citation

Charles M. Soller, WILLS-LETTERS AS HOLOGRAPHIC WILLS-TESTAMENTARY INTENT, 46 Mich. L. Rev. 578 (1948).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol46/iss4/20