In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Roe

The decree of the surrogate is reversed on the law and the facts, with costs, and the claimant’s claim of $5,000 is allowed, with interest thereon from March 21, 1931. The court reverses the findings of fact made by the surrogate as follows: 1. That S. Wallace Roe endeavored in the instrument hereinafter set out in the new finding of fact No. 2, to make a testamentary disposition of part of his property contrary to law. 2. That the said instrument was not coupled with other evidence sufficient to establish claimant’s claim. 3. That the services rendered by claimant to S. Wallace Roe were an…