IN RE ESTATE OF REPOSA

No. 80-267.

121 N.H. 114 (1981)

In re ESTATE OF ADELAIDE REPOSA.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

March 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Chretien, of Manchester, by brief and orally, for Phyllis S. Chretien, specific devisee.

Ransmeier & Spellman, of Concord (John C. Ransmeier orally), for E. Grace Sanderson, residuary legatee.


PER CURIAM.

The issue in this case is whether the testatrix's sale of real property subsequent to the execution of her will adeems a specific devise of that property. We hold that it does.

On February 3, 1972, Adelaide Reposa executed a will in which she devised her farm in Dunbarton to Phyllis Spencer, a woman raised by the Reposas as their own child. In that will Mrs. Reposa left the residue of her estate to her sister, E. Grace Sanderson. At the time the...

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