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ESTATE OF WORTHLEY

535 A.2d 433 (1988)

ESTATE OF Mary G. WORTHLEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided January 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan E. Shepard (orally), Kearns, Shepard & Read, Kennebunkport, for appellees.

James H. Titcomb, Kevin S. Flaherty (orally), Waterhouse, Titcomb, Flaherty & Knight, Sanford, for appellant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents the question whether a general power of appointment vested by a will in three donees survives when one of the three predeceases the testator. Arthur Abbott,1 personal representative of the Estate of Mary G. Worthley, late of West Lebanon, appeals from an order of the York County Probate Court, construing the following article of Miss Worthley's will in light of the fact that Harriet Fogg predeceased...

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