In re the estate of Craft

Baokes, Vice-Ordinary.

This appeal is from a decree of the orphans court of Hunter-don county, denying probate of the last will and testament of Nicholas W. Craft, deceased. The testator died July 25th, 1913, aged eighty-five years. More' than two years before, on May 29th, 1911, he executed his will, by which he gave his estate of less than $10,000 to James T. Hoffman, a nephew by marriage, except $25, which he gave to one James W. Farley. The testator’s nearest relatives were a niece—Mrs. Boíles, the caveatrix— and two nephews, one of whom lived in the State of New York and the other in the…