Ingraham
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Motion for new trial after findings of jury on certain questions of fact submitted to them in the matter of the will of Robert C. Foster. Judgment in accordance with opinion. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Dunn,. J.
Robert C. Foster, namesake of his father, distinguished from him as junior, and whose only prospective heir he was, is perter-mitted from his father’s will; a document executed when the child was less than five years old, and which became operative, before he had attained the age of eight years, by its probate in Cumberland County on May 4, 1916.
The question in this case is, whether exclusion of the'boy from provision of that will was intentional, and not occasioned by mistake, on the part of the testator; a subject of investigation regarding which the will itself is silent.
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