In re the Estate of Schriever
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate appeals by Annie 0. McElroy and John H. Schriever, from parts of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Rockland, entered in the office of said Surrogate’s Court on the 2d day of September, 1915, construing the will of John H. Schriever, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
The testator, Schriever, whose will, executed in 1899, has been construed by the surrogate, died in 1910, leaving a widow, now living and unmarried, a son, Henry, and a daughter, Annie 0. McElroy. • On May 17, 1899, the testator received a telegram announcing that the sender, McElroy, had married testator’s daughter on the previous evening. Under the date of May twenty-third following, a layman wrote the will on a blank form. After the usual introductory clause came this “First. After my lawful debts are paid, I give, & bequeth to my wife the income of all my real & personal estate…
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