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Case Citations [1] (Spring 2024)

handle is hein.ali/retpwodt9954 and id is 1 raw text is: THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE Spring 2024 Citations PROPERTY 3D (WILLS AND OTHER DONATIVE TRANSFERS) DIVISION I. PROBATE TRANSFERS (WILLS AND INTESTACY) CHAPTER 3. EXECUTION OF WILLS PART A. EXECUTION FORMALITIES § 3.2 Holographic Wills Alaska, 2023. Rptr's Note 1 quot. in sup. Special administrators of deceased putative testator's estate filed a petition to identify decedent's heirs and attached a copy of decedent's purported will; non-profit entity filed a petition seeking the formal probate of alternate version decedent's will that decedent purportedly provided to non-profit entity. Following a bench trial, the court concluded that the purported will set forth by administrators and the later version produced by non-profit entity were insufficient to create a holographic will. This court reversed and remanded, holding that the purported will produced by administrators was a valid holographic will under state law, because its signature and material portions of it were in decedent's handwriting. The court cited to Restatement Third of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers § 3.2 in explaining that material portions of the will referred to the words identifying decedent's property and the devisee. Matter of Estate of Evensen, 531 P.3d 969, 975, 976. § 3.3 Excusing Harmless Errors Conn.App.2023. Cit. in case cit. in ftn. (general cite). Mother, individually and on behalf of minor child, sued landlord of mother's neighbor for negligence, after the neighbor's dog ran unleashed from landlord's property to mother's adjoining backyard and attacked and severely injured mother and child. The trial court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment. This court affirmed, holding, inter alia, that it would not adopt Restatement Second of Torts § 379A to extend defendant's duty of care towards third persons to encompass persons who were injured outside defendant's premises, because § 379A conflicted with state caselaw, which strictly limited defendant's liability to injuries that occurred on its premises. The court noted that it did not follow the Restatement where it conflicted with state law, pointing to a prior decision in which it declined to adopt Restatement Third of Property: Wills and Other COPYRIGHT (2024 By THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America For earlier citations, see the Appendices, Supplements, or Pocket Parts, if any, that correspond to the subject matter under examination.

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