Mandeville v. Parker
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
On appeal from decree of Morris orphans court refusing probate of a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Jacob Gh Mandeville, deceased, late of that county.
1Opinion of the Court
The Ordinary.
On tbe 14th day of March, 1874, Jacob Gr. Mandeville executed an instrument of writing as his last will and testament. It was drawn by Benjamin Roomé, a scrivener, for whom he had sent. The testator signed it with his mark (he had, to a very great extent, lost the use of his right arm and hand, through an accident), in the presence of Mr. Roome and Mr. "William D. E. Merrick, a neighbor who had been sent for to witness the will. The testator, at *246the time, was in his last illness. He died the nest day. He lay in his house, on a bed in a small bed-room in the rear of the kitchen,…
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