In re the Estate of DeConza

Hartshorne, C. C. J.

This is a contest as to who is entitled to administration of the estate of the decedent, Joseph DeConza, the contestants being Karin Edstrom DeConza, who went through a marriage ceremony with the decedent, six days before he died, in the Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, and decedent’s sister, who claims that such marriage is void, because of decedent’s lack of mental capacity to contract a marriage. The .specific issue is whether or not evidence as to such incapacity is admissible here, the objection being that same amounts to a collateral attack on the marriage, whereas…