In Re Lucas

This is an appeal from an order of the orphans court, admitting a will to probate after a contest on the ground that the deceased was of unsound mind.

The testatrix, Jane Lucas, died in December, 1934, having made the will in question in 1931. Her estate consisted almost exclusively of a savings account in the Paterson Savings Institution amounting to approximately $23,000. Just prior to the execution of the will, she transferred some smaller accounts aggregating something less than $5,000, which were in savings banks in the city of New York, to herself as trustee for her only child, Samuel G.…