Mitchell v. Merriam Mitchell v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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• “Distinctions between ‘latent’ and ‘patent’ ambiguities are arbitrary and outmoded.”
• where testatrix devised property to “my nephew Edward A. Mitchell” and testatrix had both a nephew and a grand nephew named Edward A. Mitchell, the court allowed in extrinsic evidence to show which of the two individuals the testatrix was referring to in her will

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).