Legal Opinion
In Re the Estate of Sparacio
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 13, 1978PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
COHALAN, J.
Charles M. Sparacio, a widower, died in Kings County, on the fifth day of June, 1973, leaving a last will and testament that was thereafter duly admitted to probate. He left him surviving three adult children, two daughters and a son, all of whom he named as executors of his will, and as residuary legatees.
The will is a handwritten one, although it does not qualify as holographic. He dictated it to his daughter, Mary, in the presence of a legatee, Eileen Maroshick (Eileen); and- Mary wrote it out in longhand.
The first two paragraphs of the four-paragraph will,…
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