Probate • Duplicate Will • Presumption • Hearsay

Re Estate of Maddi, PICS Case No. 17-1282 (Pa. Super. July 25, 2017) Ott, J. (17 pages).

Orphans’ court properly allowed decedent’s sister to present a duplicate of decedent’s will for probate because the orphans’ court correctly recognized that the burden of proof was on the sister to overcome the presumption of destruction of the will and properly found that sister presented clear and satisfactory evidence to defeat the presumption. Affirmed.

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