In Re McPeak Estate

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• absent any ambiguity, the court must determine the testator’s intent by reviewing the four comers of the testamentary instrument
• latent ambiguity in will may be proved with extrinsic evidence, but usu ally “the court is to glean the testator’s intent from the four comers of the testamentary instrument.”

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