Currier Gallery of Art v. Packard

We affirm the decision of a judge of a Probate Court admitting to probate a second codicil described below.

The will of Marjorie T. Packard dated September 4, 1969, and a first codicil thereto dated December 1, 1970, were admitted to probate on May 4, 1978. In August, 1985, the Currier Gallery of Art, located in Manchester, New Hampshire, offered a document for probate as a second codicil. Unlike the will and first codicil, which were lawyerly, this document is rather homespun. Dated November 15, 1971, it is typed on what appears to be the decedent’s personal stationery, is addressed “To whom…