In Re the Estate of Sylvestri

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jones, J.

We hold that it was not error to affirm a Surrogate’s Court jury’s rejection of a will for lack of due execution based on testimony by a handwriting expert that the signature of the testatrix was not genuine in contradiction of the testimony of three disinterested, credible, attesting witnesses.

In the contest which followed the offer for probate of the alleged will of Palma Sylvestri the single issue submitted to the jury was whether the proponent, a daughter of the decedent and executrix and residuary legatee under the instrument, had established by a…