AR. 93] WILLS. 895

350.

In view of this section and of section 353, where there is no evidence
that the witnesses to a will were dead at the time of the testator's death
or that they died a short time thereafter, and the will is not probated for
more than eleven years after the testator's death, the policy of the law
requires, in order to establish the execution of the will, more than the
proof by a witness, who is the executor and practically the sole beneficiary
under the will, of the signature of the testator and the attesting witnesses,
particularly when the will has been destroyed by fire and a copy is offered
for probate. Tinnan v. Fitzpatrick, 120 Md. 348.

353.

The attestation clause is itself prima facie evidence of the facts therein
recited. This section referred to in construing Section 323—see notes there-
to, Conrades v. Heller, 119 Md. 461.

See notes to section 350.