In re the Probate of the Will of Levine

In a contested probate proceeding, the propounded instrument was denied probate on the ground that it was not executed as required by section 21 of the Decedent Estate Law, in that the decedent did not acknowledge her subscription to one of the two subscribing witnesses. The instrument bears the name of the decedent written in Hebrew or Yiddish characters. It was not signed in the presence of the subscribing witnesses. The subscribing witness Harry Lipetz saw the writing on the instrument; he is familiar with the foreign language and he recognized the writing as representing the decedent’s…