Eckstein v. Estate of Dunn

George Eckstein, Oma L. Smith, and George H. Lidell, Jr., testator’s heirs at law, appeal from a superior court decision to admit into probate the will of their aunt Mildred L. Dunn, in which Joan Teaford Gunterman, the testator’s grand-niece, was named the sole beneficiary. They raise two issues for our review: first, whether alterations made to the text of the will are so ambiguous as to render the will facially invalid, and second, whether the superior court erred in failing to find “suspicious circumstances,” so as to shift the burden *576of proof on the issue of undue influence to the…