In Re Ferrara

The sole question brought up by this appeal concerns the allowance by the orphans court of Monmouth county of a claim of the accountant against the decedent's estate for $50,000 based upon a note of decedent signed by him in blank and delivered to her some months before his death, and filled out for $50,000 some months after his death. The circumstances giving rise to this transaction are as follows:

The decedent and the accountant were married in Italy about 1887 or 1888 and came to this country about that time. Neither could then speak, read or write the English language. The accountant…