Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Cusimano
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided September 27, 1940PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dodd, J.,
Acting Surrogate. This decedent died on September 30, 1939. Twenty-seven days later two testamentary documents, purporting to have been executed by him, were filed in this court. The first is dated April 13, 1937, and, so far as presently material, provides for a legacy of $5,000 to his sister, Giuseppina Cusimano Minneci, if she shall survive him. It also provides that this sister should receive one-half of his “ personal effects ” which, it has been stated without contradiction, are wholly negligible in value. The second instrument purports to have been executed on September 25,…
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