Battenberg v Phillips

• 1. Succession
  2. › Contested probate
  3. › Knowledge and approval
  4. › Suspicious circumstances
  5. › Whether proponents of will discharged onus of proving testator knew and approved contents
  6. › Whether reading will aloud before execution constituted satisfactory evidence of actual knowledge
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Review of factual findings
  4. › Whether primary judge erred in finding knowledge and approval established

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