In re Proving the Last Will and Testament of Stegner

The testator’s widow, with whom he had lived for about twenty-eight years, interposed objections to the probate of his alleged last will and testament. The issues thereby raised were tried before the surrogate and a jury. The surrogate directed the jury to find a general verdict admitting the will to probate. From a decree entered upon that verdict, duly returned, the widow, contestant, appeals. The alleged will bequeathed to her the sum of one hundred dollars only, in lieu of dower and thirds in all of decedent’s property. It bore date October 18, 1923, about fourteen years before the…