In re the Accounting of Hockenbery

Taylor, S.

Decedent was a funeral director. He lived in the hamlet of Westtown and there conducted his business. He owned and occupied a residence property upon which there was a dwelling and a building originally erected to be used as a barn, but used latterly as a garage. Oral testimony has been received to show that much of the decedent’s business equipment was kept in the barn or garage, while some of it, being that which was in more or less constant use, was kept in the dwelling.

Paragraph “ Fourth ” of the will is as follows: “ The contents of my home located at Westtown, New York, except…