Ruddon v. McDonald

The Surrogate.

The main, objection to the admission of this will to probate, grows out of the manner in which the witnesses signed their names. The decedent at the time of the' execution lay upon a bed, in a small bedroom, from which a door opened into a larger room adjoining, upon a table in the corner of which the witnesses subscribed their names. The bedroom door was open at the time, and the deceased was sitting up in bed, supported by pillows. As the witnesses sat at the moment of signing, they faced the bedroom door. One of them says, “I could see the bed from where I wrote, but I do not…