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IN RE ESTATE OF BURLESON

No. 97-PR-1116.

738 A.2d 1199 (1999)

In re ESTATE OF William A. BURLESON. Pamela Marie Stansel Merritt, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 9, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Curtin, with whom Mark S. Carlin, and Laurence E. Salans, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellant.

Phillip M. Seligman, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, with whom Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Mary Lou Leary, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, Mark E. Nagle, Assistant United States Attorney, J. Christopher Kohn and Robert M. Hollis, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, and Ildiko P. DeAngelis, Counsel, Smithsonian Institution, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.

RUIZ, Associate Judge:

This appeal arises from the Superior Court's grant of summary judgment for the appellee, the United States, on behalf of its trust instrumentality, the Smithsonian Institution, denying the petition to admit a 1993 will to probate filed by the appellant, Pamela Marie Stansel Merritt. The Superior Court determined that there was no genuine issue of material fact in dispute because all prior wills of the decedent had been revoked by a later 1994...

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