Matter of Estate of Griffin

SIMMS, Justice:

Lillie Griffin executed a Will in March, 1971, by the terms of which she was to leave her entire estate to her husband, Stanley Griffin and to certain nieces and nephews. Stanley predeceased Lillie and she thereafter married Robert Shepherd, the appellant, on October 1, 1974. Lillie Griffin-Shepherd died four months later without having changed her Will. Appellant met with the executors named in the Will eight days after Lillie’s death. The executors informed appellant that he might renounce the Will and take half the estate. To this he replied that he wanted the estate to…