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- Title: Estate Christ M. Balafas. Matthew Balafas
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 14, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Appellants, Pericles and Stamata Angelos, proponents of a will executed by decedent, Christ M. Balafas, on October 6, 1969,
appeal from the denial of their post-trial motion for a new trial and from a judgment reversing an order of the Hennepin County
probate court admitting the will to probate, upon findings by the trial court after a 6-day trial that the will was the result
of undue influence exercised over the testator by appellants. An advisory jury of six, upon correct and unchallenged instructions
on the applicable law, returned a finding in the form of a special verdict to the same effect. The trial court adopted the
jury's finding as its own and as consistent with its independently reached determination. The primary and dispositive issue presented is whether the evidence supports the extensive and detailed findings of the trial
court. Our careful reading of the transcript of over 700 pages convinces us that, upon the evidence taken as a whole, the
findings are in no respect clearly erroneous. Accordingly, we affirm.