Sletterink v. Rooney

Four contestants have appealed from a decree of a Probate Court allowing a certain instrument as the will of Harold E. McDonough. The evidence is reported, but there are no findings. “Since the... [contestants] did not exercise... [their] privilege of requesting a report of material facts under G. L. c. 215, § 11, and no voluntary findings of fact were made, the decision of the judge must be affirmed if it can be supported on any legal principal and was not, in our view of the evidence, plainly wrong.” Duchesneau v. Jaskoviak, 360 Mass. 730, 732. We have carefully reviewed the evidence on the…