In Re the Probate of the Will of Tremain

The will of Esther Hull Tremain has been admitted to probate by a Surrogate’s decree which granted the proponent’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissed the contestants’ objection that the alleged will had been revoked by cancellation. Following the unanimous affirmance by the Appellate Division of that decree, we have granted leave to appeal and now review the record upon which rests the ruling that the presence of certain marks, lines and writings, concededly made by the testatrix in ink upon four of the eleven pages of the will, are insufficient in law to constitute an act of…