Legal Opinion
Old Colony Trust Co. v. Yonge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 29, 1938PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
Gertrude P. Browne died on May 28, 1937, at the age of seventy-five years, possessed of an estate of approximately $50,000, and leaving as her heirs two nephews and two grandnieces. Three of these appeared in opposition to the probate of an instrument purporting to, *50be her last will and to have been executed by her on May 12, 1937, which, after a full hearing in the Probate Court, was disallowed on the ground, as stated in the decree, that it had been procured by the undue influence of .one Rossiter. The proponent appealed from the decree of the Probate Court.'
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2Cases cited14 opinions
- Neill v. BrackettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Tuells v. FlintMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Raposa v. OliveiraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- Greeley v. O'ConnorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Briggs v. WestonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
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3Cited by7 opinions
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- Goddard v. DupreeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
- MacLennan v. MacLennanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Greene v. CroninMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Swift v. HiscockMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
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