In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of Abel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Patrick H. Cannon from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Kings, entered in said Surrogated Court on the 26th day of May, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Carr, J.:
This is an appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Kings county admitting to probate an instrument proposed as the last will and testament of one Mary E, Abel, deceased. The paper is dated May 1, 1894, and was presented'for probate in 1909, and bears the purported signature of the testatrix and likewise the purported signatures of three subscribing witnesses. There is no formal attestation clause save to the extent that tlie signatures of the subscribing witnesses .appear immediately under the word “ witnesses.”
The principal and, in fact, the only considerable ground of…
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