Clark v. Fisher
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from the sentence and decree of the surrogate of Kings county. A statement of the case is contained in the opinion of the Chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
*173The Chancellor. :—This cause comes before this court on an appeal from a sentence and decree of the surrogate of Kings county, allowing and admitting to probate an instrument propounded by the respondents as the last will and testament of John Fisher, late of Brooklyn, deceased. The two Mrs. Clarkes are the nieces and next of kin of the deceased, who left a large real and personal estate. He died in May or June, 1827, being then about 80 years of age. About four years previous to his death, and about one year before the death of his first wife, he had an apoplectic fit, which terminated in…
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