Treaster v. Hamlin

CONLEY, J. pro tem. *

These are appeals from two complementary judgments denying probate to an alleged integral portion of a holographic will and determining that a granddaughter of the decedent, who is his sole surviving heir at law, is entitled to take the whole of his estate, valued at more than $115,000, to the exclusion of the devisees and legatees named in the will.

The decedent, Frank Blain, and his wife Wanda Berta Blain had one child, Carol, who married Otto Lambert; their only child is Sonia Lambert. The Blains had executed a property settlement agreement and an interlocutory decree…