case law on lack of knowledge of a will’s contents supplies an alternative basis for upholding this portion of the court’s ruling. 8 . Rodman cites Estate of Delaney, 819 A.2d 968, 981 (D.C.2003) (‘‘[T]he District of Columbia has a strong interest in ... ensuring that a will admitted to probate is not the result of fraud.”). 9 .Partial invalidation, Rodman urges, would also accomplish what the wrongdoer Amani set out to accomplish: to protect one or both of his children while excluding Turpin's sons from taking anything. 10 . See, e.g., Washington Loan & Trust Co. v. Hammond, 278 F. 569, 571-73 (D.C.Cir.1922) (striking the second bequest listed in the fifth paragraph of a will but leaving the first bequest in that paragraph intact); Wolfe v. Snyder, 48 F.Supp. 227, 228-29 (D.D.C.1942) (<HOLDING>). 11 . See Roberts-Douglas, 624 A.2d at 419 n.
holding that a jurys award of compensatory damages will be set aside on the grounds of excessiveness only if the verdict is against the clear weight of the evidence or will result in a miscarriage of justice holding that the plaintiff has a good faith basis to believe a putative defendant may be a district of columbia resident if a geolocation service places his her ip address within the district of columbia or within a city located within 30 miles of the district of columbia recognizing that district of columbia law now codified at dccode  18109 2001 establishing how a will or codicil or a part thereof may be revoked authorizes revocation of a portion  of the will  leaving the remainder of the will unaffected if such remainder standing alone be an understandable testamentary expression of the testator holding that a contract will be read as a whole and the intent of each part will be gathered from a consideration of the whole holding that ordinance conferred unbridled discretion where issuance of permit was subject to broad findings that proposed use will not have a harmful effect upon the health or welfare of the general public and will not be detrimental to the welfare of the general public and will not be detrimental to the aesthetic quality of the community or the surrounding land uses