In re the Probate of a Paper Writing Purporting to Be the Last Will & Testament of Oliver

Slater, S.

This is a contest of an alleged will of Edwin A. Oliver had before the court as the trier of the facts upon framed issues relating to the execution of the will,.mental capacity of the decedent, fraud and undue influence, supplemented by the unusual issue of forgery.

Edwin A. Oliver died April 22, 1925, aged about sixty-nine years. He was formerly editor and publisher of the Yonkers Statesman and a well-known personage in the city of Yonkers. In his younger years he acquired distinction as a humorist and story-teller. He left him surviving Arthur Gunn and George Starin Cowles,…