In re the Estate of Weaver

OPINION OF THE COURT

F. Warren Travers, S.

William J. Weaver, decedent herein, served honorably in the United States armed forces and was wounded in September of 1918. Thereafter, he was permanently and totally disabled. On September 8, 1930, he entered a veterans’ hospital and, on January 3, 1931, he was adjudicated an incompetent in Supreme Court, Rensselaer County. Mr. Weaver remained continuously hospitalized until May 20, 1969, when he was placed on a trial visit from the Veterans’ Administration Hospital at Albany, New York. He returned to that hospital on July 18, 1972, where he died on…