In re the Probate of the Will of Boyle

One of the contestants appeals from a decree admitting testator’s will of March 8, 1944, to probate, after a trial before the surrogate and a jury. Although the objections were improper execution of the will, fraud and undue influence, and lack of testamentary capacity, the only objection as to which contestants’ proof approached raising an issue was the last one. Testator was a patient in the Sisters’ Hospital in Buffalo from February 20, 1944, until his death on the following March 14th. Contestants called three physicians, who, as expert witnesses, testified that he was irrational for two…