In re Delaplaine

The Surrogate

Amelia A. Stolzel and Arthur F. Stolzel, as devisees and legatees under an instrument claimed to have been executed by this decedent on *399July 17th, 1883, as a second codicil to a paper heretofore admitted to probate as his last will and testament, commenced in June last a proceeding in this court for the probate of such second codicil.

It is alleged in their petition that the decedent died in February, 1885, in the city of New York ; that he left in the said city personal assets of • great value; that the paper under which the petitioners claim came into being in the city of…