In re the Probate of the Will of Silverman

Griffiths, A. S.

At the hearing held herein evidence was adduced relating to the execution by decedent of a codicil offered for probate. The evidence established that decedent was seriously ill of a chronic ailment and confined to his residence in an oxygen tent on the occasion of execution.

*275By an instrument dated December 2, 1948, decedent had purported to devise and bequeath his net estate to his son as Ms sole distributee. The codicil offered for probate, dated March 5, 1950, named as the guardian of the person and property of decedent’s son, to serve without bond, one Harold Erichs, the…