In re the Estate of Mahnken
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—■ Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Broome County (Keane, S.), entered April 2, 1982, which admitted decedent’s will to probate. Decedent died on January 2, 1980. By instrument dated March 19, 1976, he left his entire estate to Frances Mahnken, his second wife whom he had married on March 6, 1976; his first wife of 50 years died in November, 1974. At the time of his second marriage, decedent was 87 years old and his new wife 65. Contestant, decedent’s sole surviving child, challenged the will claiming that it had been procured by undue influence exerted upon her father by…
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