NORWAY NATIONAL BANK v. OATES


297 A.2d 898 (1972)

NORWAY NATIONAL BANK, Trustee u/w/o Emma L. Chapman v. Irene C. OATES et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

December 12, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen & McKusick, by Jotham D. Pierce, Sigrid E. Tompkins, Portland, Maine, for plaintiff.

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, by Leonard M. Nelson, Peter J. Rubin, Gregory A. Tselikis, Linnell, Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley, Thaxter & Keddy, by Sidney W. Thaxter, Owen W. Wells, Portland, Gordon M. Stewart, South Paris, Jensen, Baird, Chapman & Gardner, by Raymond E. Jensen, Portland, for defendants.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEBBER, WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK, and ARCHIBALD, JJ.


POMEROY, Justice.

By appropriate pleadings, we are asked, on report, pursuant to Rule 72(a) M.R. Civ.P. to construe the last Will and Testament (with two codicils thereto) of the late Emma L. Chapman.

This litigation originated in 1954 with the filing of a Bill in Equity requesting the construction of both the Will of William R. Chapman and that of Emma L. Chapman, with the codicils thereto; each of said Wills and...

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