CASWELL v. KENT


186 A.2d 581 (1962)

Ann CASWELL v. Newell E. KENT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

December 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Needham, Needham & Needham, Bangor, for appellant.

Morris G. Pilot, Pilot & Pilot, Bangor, for appellee.

Argued before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, TAPLEY, SULLIVAN, SIDDALL and DUBORD, JJ.


WEBBER, Justice.

On report. The late James G. Kent married Ann Caswell in 1946. In 1947 Mr. Kent executed a will devising an interest in his real estate in these terms: "* * * and one-third part in common and undivided thereof to my wife, Ann Kent, * * *." The remainder of his estate was left to Newell E. Kent, son of the testator by a former marriage. About a year later Mrs. Kent divorced her husband and resumed her maiden name. The divorce was accompanied by a voluntary...

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