City of New York v. 503 Fifth Avenue Co.

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• “Where the paper is found among the testator’s effects, there is also a presumption that he made the cancellations or obliterations.”
• pencil lines had been drawn through portions, including the signatures of the testator and witnesses, and blank papers pasted over certain clauses through which lines had been drawn
• all holding that the destruction or obliteration of a material part of a will raises a presumption of revocation, and that the propounder has the burden to show that no revocation was intended

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).