In re Estate of Washburn

The respondent, Barbara A. Remick, the principal beneficiary of the testatrix’s April 1992 will, appeals an order of the Rockingham County Probate Court (O’Neill, J.) holding that the testatrix lacked the testamentary capacity necessary to execute the will. We affirm.

Katherine F. Washburn, the testatrix, executed three wills that were put in evidence before the probate court. In the first will, dated October 1986, she left $1,000 bequests to several named individuals and provided that her Portsmouth home, personal effects, and the residue of her estate should go to her sister, Margaret Fay,…