Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Salvan

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 20, 1987Published

1Opinion of the Court

In a proceeding to admit the last will and testament and codicil of the decedent to probate, the proponents Harry Salvan and Sherwood Salvan separately appeal *663from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County (Laurino, S.), dated January 6, 1986, which denied probate and granted the contestant Barbara Joan Wright letters of administration.

Ordered that the decree is modified, on the law, by deleting the third decretal paragraph thereof which granted letters of administration to the contestant and substituting therefor a provision granting letters of administration to the proponent Harry…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Rollwagen v. . RollwagenNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
  2. In Re the Estate of RechtschaffenNew York Court of Appeals · 1938
  3. In re the Estate of PugarelliNew York Surrogate's Court · 1958
  4. In re the Estate of SmithAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937

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