In re the Accounting of Public Aministrator of Kings County

Maximilian Moss, S.

Found among the decedent’s effects was a New York law blank publisher’s printed four-page form of a last will and testament, which was apparently prepared in the decedent’s handwriting. His name, signed in ink, appears solely in the exordium (introductory) clause. After the printed direction for the payment of debts, bequests are given to several persons. The printed clause appointing an executor was filled out with the name and address of a designee. The testimonium clause, which follows, was not filled in nor were the names of decedent and the three witnesses inserted in…