Legal Opinion

In re the Probate of the Will of Redden

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided August 1, 1945Published

1Opinion of the Court

Vandermetjlen, S.

It appears that the purported last will and testament of the decedent herein was drafted by her attorney on four yellow sheets of paper, consisting of four pages. The will apparently ends at the end of the third page. The testator signed each of the three pages and on the fourth page appear the names of two witnesses. With the exception of the glue which binds papers of this nature into a pad, the sheets were not fastened together. After the will was executed, the attorney for the testatrix put it in a file in his office and there it remained until it was filed, along with a…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. In Re the Probate of the Will of FieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
  2. In Re the Probate of the Will of AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1940
  3. In re Proving the Alleged Last Will & Testament of PerrineNew York Surrogate's Court · 1919
  4. In re the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of CoganNew York Surrogate's Court · 1917

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