ZIEHL v. MAINE NAT. BANK


383 A.2d 1364 (1978)

Jennifer Sherwood ZIEHL, a minor, suing by and through Sylvia Rhodes Ziehl, her mother and next friend v. MAINE NATIONAL BANK et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster by William C. Smith (orally), Everett P. Ingalls, III, Ralph I. Lancaster, Jr., Portland, for plaintiff.

Verrill & Dana by John A. Mitchell (orally), P. Benjamin Zuckerman, Portland, for Mary Rhodes Jackson.

Wilson, Steinfeld, Murrell, Barton & Lane by Thomas P. Wilson, Portland, guardian ad litem.

Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Keddy by Thomas Schulten, Portland, for Maine Nat. Bank and Woodfords Congregational Church.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J. and WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, GODFREY and DELAHANTY, JJ.


WERNICK, Justice.

On November 19, 1973 plaintiff Jennifer Sherwood Ziehl, a minor and lawfully adopted child of Sylvia Rhodes Ziehl, by her mother as her next friend, instituted a civil action in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) seeking a declaratory judgment interpreting the wills of Carrie S. Rhodes and Richard A. Rhodes.1

Carrie S. Rhodes died on May 9, 1968. Her husband Richard...

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