Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Golden

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided November 19, 1937PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Hetherington, S.

The paper writing here presented for probate is a so-called will form whereon the blanks are filled in by testator in her own handwriting and apparently without competent advice. She wrote on the first page as far as it gave her room so to do without trespassing on the printed words providing for the appointment of an executor, then manifestly because there was not space enough to finish at the top of the second page, she continued on *206the third, and, finishing her dispositive paragraphs, returned to the second page, filled in the testimonium clause with the date, and duly…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In Re the Probate of the Will of FieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1912

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Estate of ChaseCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1942
  2. In re the Estate of DupinNew York Surrogate's Court · 1962
  3. Coplin v. AndersonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1955
  4. In re the Estate of KobrinskyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1966
  5. Chase v. Union Title Insurance & Trust Co.California Court of Appeal · 1942

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