Cushing v. Estate of Reynolds

These consolidated appeals are from orders of the probate court which (1) denied the proponents’1 petition to probate the will of Robert C. Reynolds upon the conclusion that the decedent lacked the required testamentary capacity when he executed the will, (2) upon the petition of the proponents, awarded a fee to Edward Vining, the attorney for the unsuccessful proponents, (3) required the unsuccessful proponents to pay costs to the estate, and (4) denied a petition for attorneys’ fees filed by Bedzow and Korn, P.A., the former attorneys for the proponent Carol Ann Clifford. With the exception…