Allard v. Stedman

The respondents appeal from a decree allowing an instrument dated April 15, 1955, as Helen A. Stedman’s last will. She died June 18, 1965. The probate judge made a report of material facts. The reported evidence warranted his findings and conclusions. It could reasonably be found on the somewhat conflicting evidence that, when an elderly, retired schoolteacher, for whose property a conservator had been appointed in 1958, made marks (at some unascertained time or times prior to March 22, 1958) upon her 1955 will, she had no intention of revoking it in whole or in part, even if it be assumed…