Legal Opinion
In re the Probate of the Will of Coddington
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 3, 1954PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtConway, J.
On September 9,1951, Eva Coddington of Kingston, New York, an unmarried woman about seventy-five years of age, died at the Hudson River State Hospital to which she had been admitted on July 24, 1951. The cause of death was a generalized arteriosclerosis, senile psychosis paranoid type. The interval between the onset of the disease and death was four years.
The issue is whether she possessed testamentary capacity when, on February 13, 1951, she executed an instrument purporting to be her last will and testament.
By that instrument she bequeathed various articles of personalty to two second…
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