Legal Opinion

In Re Paradis'will

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided March 31, 1952PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMurchie, C. J.

The appellants in this case are Antonio Paradis and Jeanne Theriault, two of four children disinherited by a will leaving all the property of their father to his wife, if she survived him, and to a half-brother of theirs, if she did not. They seek a review of a decree of the Supreme Court of Probate, and the findings therein, made by the justice who heard their appeal from the Probate Court, without the intervention of a jury. Their exceptions allege error in the decree and in rulings on evidence. The justice denied their appeal, allowed the contested instrument as the last will and testament…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. State v. KnightSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1857
  2. Louisville & Nashvile Railroad v. HurtSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
  3. Nunn v. EhlertMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
  4. Meier v. BuchterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1906
  5. State v. BennerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1874

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Jusseaume v. DucattSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2011
  2. Strahl v. TurnerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1958
  3. In Re Will of FenwickSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1975
  4. In Re LeonardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974

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