Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Mason
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided May 15, 1940PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wingate, S.
The present proceeding is a sequel to one decided almost a generation ago (Matter of Mason, 121 Misc. 142), in which this court admitted to probate the nuncupative will of an American *220soldier who had been taken prisoner by the Germans in an a-ltack on the Hindenburg line on September 27, 1918, and who was last seen by any person appearing before the court on his removal in a German ambulance while delirious and suffering from a severe attack of influenza.
His fianceé retained the present petitioners as her attorneys to seek the probate of an alleged nuncupative will predicated on…
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- Hines v. LowreySupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Margolin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- In Re the Estate of GilmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1929
- In re MeekerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1929
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