Legal Opinion
Estate of Boothby
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 27, 1987PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
Beulah Towne appeals an order of the York County Probate Court denying her claim against the estate of her uncle Earl Boothby. Mrs. Towne claims that the estate owes her $100,000 for services she rendered to Mr. Boothby between August 1972 and December 1982. We find no reversible error in the Probate Court’s denial of her claim.
In July 1972 Mr. Boothby, a resident of Limerick, was ready to be discharged from the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Togus. Because of his physical ailments as well as his wife’s recent death, he asked his niece, Mrs. Towne, if she would…
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