In re the Petition of Dunn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by William P. Dunn, proponent, and another, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Albany, entered in the office of said Surrogate’s Court on the 17th day of December, 1917, denying probate to the alleged last will and testament of John J. Hicks, and also from an order entered in said court on the same day denying appellants’ motion for a new trial on the questions of fact submitted to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
John J. Hicks, the testator, was seventy-five years of age, and, at the time of his death, was living with his second wife, a woman about fifty-two years of age, who appears to have been entirely devoted to him, and to have performed all of her wifely duties in a manner satisfactory to all parties, with the possible exception of some of the testator’s married daughters of about her own age. The testator was married to his now widow in 1903, some fourteen years prior to his death. He had six daughters, five of them married and having homes of their own, while the sixth was a…
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