In re the Probate of the Proposed Paper Purporting to be the Last Will & Testament of McClear

On the evening of April 16, 1923, an operation was performed upon Robert G. McClear, eighty-three years old, in an Ogdensburg hospital. Before leaving his home for the hospital, McClear’s wife was in tears and said to him that she had struggled all of these years and that she ought to have half his property anyway. The couple had lived together for fifty years without children.

1 will leaving all his property to his wife was executed by McClear in the hospital, on April nineteenth, at about eight o’clock in the *684evening, and McClear died two hours later. At the time of his death he owned real…