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IN RE ESTATE OF LORD

795 A.2d 700 (2002)

2002 ME 71

Estate of Florence N. LORD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: April 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Knowles (orally), Merritt T.C. Ireland, Verrill & Dana, LLC, Portland, for appellants.

Catherine R. Connors (orally), Barbara K. Wheaton, Portland, for appellees, 14 individual devisees.

David J. Ballou, Ballou & Bedell, York, for appellees, First Parish Church & York Public Library.

Peter Clifford, Hodsdon & Clifford, LLC, Kennebunk, for appellee, Animal Welfare Society.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and RUDMAN, ALEXANDER, and CALKINS, JJ.

CALKINS, J.

[¶ 1] Nancy N. Dreher and Emily N. Haggerty appeal from the judgment of the York County Probate Court (Nadeau, J.) construing the will of Florence N. Lord. Dreher and Haggerty contend that the court erred by finding the will ambiguous and admitting extrinsic evidence to ascertain Lord's intent. They further allege error in the court's construction of language in the will which results in the distribution of the residue of Lord's estate to sixteen...

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