Legal Opinion

In re Benedict's Will

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided March 15, 1889Published

Proceedings for the probate of the will of Fanny S. Benedict, deceased.

1Opinion of the Court

Jenks, S.

The probate of the will is not contested, but the contestants, by their answer, put in issue the validity of the bequests to the American Missionary Association, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions, the Susquehanna Valley Home, the First Congregational Church of Sherburne, N. Y., and the American Female Guardian Society, and ask for a determination of such issue, upon rendering the decree admitting the will to probate, as provided by section 2624 *253of the Code. The will was executed on the 5th day of May, 1888, and the testatrix…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Chamberlain v. . ChamberlainNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
  2. Brown v. . ClarkNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
  3. Kerr v. . DoughertyNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
  4. Lefevre v. . LefevreNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
  5. Stephenson v. . ShortNew York Court of Appeals · 1883

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