Theriault v. Burnham

[¶ 1] This appeal arises from an award of damages for tortious interference with an expectancy based upon proof that an elderly person was unduly influenced to revise her will. We affirm the Superior Court’s (Cumberland County, Wheeler, J.) judgment.

[¶ 2] Helen Dingley had known Clement Theriault for approximately thirty years when she prepared a will in 2001 that would devise to him her property in Naples known as Kent’s Landing. She was then eighty-six years of age. Around the same time, Dingley became acquainted with Kenneth Burnham when she frequented his family’s restaurant in Naples.

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