Lacey v. Dobbs
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from' a decree of the prerogative court affirming the probate, in Essex county orphans court, of the will of Mary Ann Caldwell. The opinion M the ordinary is reported in 16 Dick. Gh. Rep. 575.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Collins, J. •
The orphans court of Essex county admitted to probate as the last will and testament of Mary Ann Caldwell, deceased, a paper-writing, her signature to which was proved to have been made after the subscription of the putative testamentary witnesses, although on the same occasion and while they were still present.
*326Upon affirmance in the prerogative court, by the decree that is the subject of the present appeal, the learned chancellor, sitting as ordinary, was largely influenced, if not controlled, by a deliverance in that court in 1858, in…
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