In re a Paper Propounded for Probate as the Last Will & Testament of Klinzner

Fowler, S.

The voluminous testimony taken on the hearing discloses that Charles Klinzner, whose testamentary intentions are the subject of this proceeding, on what proved to be his death bed, subscribed with his mark the paper now propounded as his will. He was at that time only a few months past twenty-one years of age. His youth, from an unusually early period, had been dissolute, and he was frequently intoxicated before his final illness; but there is an absence of proof that his use of intoxicants had so undermined his system as to deprive him, when sober, of a “ sound and disposing mind.”…