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AMOSKEAG TRUST CO. v. HASKELL

No. 3859.

96 N.H. 89 (1950)

AMOSKEAG TRUST COMPANY, Ex'r and Tr. v. ALICE G. HASKELL & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

January 3, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren, Wilson, Wiggin and Sundeen, for the plaintiff, filed no brief.

Hamblett, Griffith and Moran (Mr. Griffith orally), for the defendants, Hughes and Youngman.

Robert C. Laing, guardian ad litem, pro se, filed no brief.

Hansen and Towle (of Illinois) and McLane, Davis, Carleton and Graf (Mr. Alvin L. Hansen orally), for the defendants, Parker Kendall, Daskey, Bastien, Korol, Anderson and Crawford.

The remaining defendants entered no appearance.

LAMPRON, J.

"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...

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