IN RE WILL OF FENWICK


348 A.2d 12 (1975)

In re WILL of Margaret B. FENWICK.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

November 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hart & Stinson, P.A. by Ronald A. Hart, Bath, for appellants.

David A. Nichols, Richard A. McKittrick, Camden, for appellee.

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


POMEROY, Justice.

This appeal from a decree of the Supreme Court of Probate allowing the Will of Margaret Fenwick underscores the importance of the distinction which the law draws between an inference and a presumption.1 A Justice of the Supreme Court of Probate reversed a decree of the Knox County Probate Court which had disallowed the Will, thus denying it legal effect. The disallowance was based...

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