In Re Estate of Hodgkins

[¶ 1] Bryant Hodgkins appeals from a judgment of the Oxford County Probate Court (Hanley, J.) that the will of the deceased testator, Steven Hodgkins, granted a life estate to Pricilla Sargent and that Hodgkins’s actions interfered with that life estate, and awarded Sargent damages against Hodgkins for that interference. 1 Hodgkins challenges (1) the Probate Court’s interpretation of the will, (2) the jurisdiction of the Probate Court to award damages to Sargent for Hodgkins’s interference with that life estate, and (3) the court’s determination of those damages that compensate Sargent for…