In re the Will of Schoengold

Savarese, S.

On August 31,1942, Joseph Schoengold, accompanied by a friend, went to his lawyer’s office in the borough of Manhattan and then and there executed his will, previously prepared for him, in the presence of his lawyer and two other witnesses. After execution the lawyer delivered the will in good condition to the testator who took the same and his wife’s unsigned will away with him. There is evidence that upon his return home testator handed both instruments to his wife who put them in her pocketbook. His will when presented for probate by his widow, who is the sole executrix,…