In Re Will of Kestler

Only two exceptions need engage our attention, the one relating to the competency of opinion evidence, the other to the correctness of the charge.

1. The will under caveat is dated 18 March, 1946. The lawyer who drew it says it was prepared on that date, and it “might have been signed a day or two later.” The testatrix died nearly eight months thereafter. Her husband, Simon Kestler, predeceased her by more than a year. He died sometime after 14 June, 1944 (on which date he and his wife executed a deed to Maude Gibson).

Odessa Williams was reared in the home of the Kestlers. She came there when…