Succession of Hackett

REGAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in a suit attacking the substantive validity of certain trust provisions contained in a testament confected in the statutory form by Mrs. Madeleine Bourne Hackett. The interesting questions which ordinarily would have been posed for our consideration are: (1) the existence of an alleged substitution contained within the testament and (2) the existence vel non of a conflict in the dispositive provisions of said testament.

In the course of oral argument before this court, counsel for the defendant, Richard Alexander Blackett, dramatically…