Amoskeag Trust Co. v. Haskell

“The law is too well settled in this jurisdiction to require extended citation, that the testator’s intent is the sovereign guide in the interpretation of a will and this intent being ascertained, the Court must enforce it unless it is illegal or impossible to do so.” Stearns v. Matthews, 94 N. H. 435, 437; Osgood v. Vivada, 94 N. H. 222. “The testator’s intention “is determined as a question of fact by competent evidence, and not by rules of law.” Edgerly v. Barker, 66 N. H. 434, 447; Osgood v. Vivada, supra, 224. Such competent evidence are “the situation of the testator, the surrounding…