In Re Raynolds

This is an appeal from a decree of the Monmouth County Orphans Court admitting to probate a will and two codicils of Edward Hidden Raynolds, late of Allenhurst, Monmouth County, New Jersey. The will in controversy was executed on June 30th, 1936, the first codicil thereto on March 2d 1937, and the second codicil on February 21st, 1939. Mr. Raynolds died on March 14th, 1940, at the age of eighty-two years. He was a man of exceptional mental and physical vigor, attending daily, until his retirement, to his duties as president and chairman of the board of directors of DeVoe Raynolds Company, one…