Moehring v. Mitchell
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from, a decision of the circuit judge ot the first circuit, affirming a sentence and decree of the surrogate of New-York, refusing to admit to probate, as a will of personal estate, an instrument in writing propounded by the proctor of the appellant, as the will of Isabella Leo Wolf, deceased. The following opinion was delivered by the circuit judge:
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The facts in this case, so far as the same can be ascertained from the proceedings returned by the ■surrogate, are substantially these. In May, 1840, Isabella Leo Wolf, the wife of Joseph Leo Wolf, procured a policy of insurance, from the New-York Life Insurance and Trust Company, upon the life of her husband, for §5000, for the term of five years. The policy was in her own name, and for her sole use; as authorized. by the first section of the act of April, 1840, in respect to insurances for lives for the benefit of married women. (Baws of 1840, p. 59.) And the amount was made…
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