Estate of Bernice Dix Beatty

CLIFFORD, Justice.

William D. Peterson, nephew and sole heir to the estate of the late Bernice Dix Beatty, appeals from the judgment entered in the Oxford County Probate Court (Whiting, J.) dismissing his petition for adjudication of intestacy and allowing probate of Beatty’s will. Peterson contends that Beatty died intestate and that the court erred in holding that Beatty’s act of marking the cover of her will “obsolete” and crossing out certain provisions within the document did not revoke the entire will. Discerning no error in the court’s finding that Beatty lacked the intent necessary for…