Court Opinion

ID: 9790174
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:48:04.780644+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:24:16.966233
License: Public Domain

LANGDON, J., Dissenting.
I dissent.
This court, in its prior opinion herein, purported to interpret the documents before it and gave to those documents an interpretation different from that given by the trial court. Everything that was said by this court on this issue in its prior opinion was clear dicta and the trial court should not have held that it was bound thereby. The rule is well settled that, on the probate of a will, questions of interpretation do not arise, except in certain unusual situations, of which the instant case is not one. The rule enunciated in the majority opinion, by permitting a construction of a will prior to its admission to probate, not only disturbs a well settled principle of law but, in my opinion, tends to upset the orderly handling of the probate of an estate.