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IN RE ESTATE OF HUNT

Docket: Lin-09-351.

990 A.2d 544 (2010)

2010 ME 23

ESTATE OF Eldon C. HUNT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 18, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Hopkinson, Esq. (orally), Hopkinson & Abbondanza, Portland, ME, for Forrest C. Hunt.

Stephen E.F. Langsdorf, Esq. (orally)*, Jonathan G. Mermin, Esq., Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, Portland, ME, for Norman C. Hunt and Robert Hunt.

Jerrol A. Crouter, Esq., Drummond Woodsum, Portland, ME, for the Personal Representative, Bangor Savings Bank.

Frank K.N. Chowdry, Esq., Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry, Portland, ME, for Wilder A. Hunt.

Hylie A. West, Esq., Damariscotta, ME, for Eldon C. Hunt, Jr.

Joel F. Bowie, Esq., Howard & Bowie, Damariscotta, ME, for the Estate of Raymond E. Hunt.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.

LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] Forrest C. Hunt appeals from a judgment of the Lincoln County Probate Court (Berry, J.) construing a devise of property in Newcastle contained in his father's will and reforming the devise to conform to local zoning ordinances. On appeal, Forrest argues that (1) because the devise violated local zoning ordinances, it failed as a matter of law, thereby necessitating its distribution as part of the will's residuary provision pursuant to 18...

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