In re Estate of Snow

The plaintiffs are appealing a ruling by the Probate Court (Espiefs, J.) denying the petition of Eugene Snow for appointment as administrator of Stella Snow’s estate and granting the petition of Chester and Edmund Kingsman for appointment as executors under Stella Snow’s will. The probate court found that Stella Snow’s 1979 revocation of her 1974 will was a nullity because she lacked testamentary capacity at the time of revocation. It also ruled that Stella Snow’s 1974 will was not revoked by implication of law. We affirm.

Stella Snow executed a will on October 17, 1974, in which she named her…