Murray v. Brooklyn Savings Bank

The deceased, Lawrence J. O’Neill, at the age of fifty-five, married Mary Margaret O’Neill, twenty-nine, on November 11, 1934. Their marriage was not entirely a happy one, but they lived together until April 11, 1938. On that day the deceased died, intestate. The deceased had threatened to leave his wife on several occasions, and had also declared that he would leave her nothing when he died.

The decedent left him surviving no mother, father or children. His widow, two sisters and a number of nephews and nieces alone are entitled to share in his intestate estate of which the widow is the…