American Seamen's Friend Society v. Hopper
New York Court of Appeals
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, affirming a determination of the surrogate of the county of Hew York, which refused to admit to probate a paper propounded as • the last will and testament of Charles Hopper, deceased. The alleged will bore date the 28th of October, 1861, and the deceased died on the first day of Hovember, four days afterwards.
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This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, affirming a determination of the surrogate of the county of Hew York, which refused to admit to probate a paper propounded as • the last will and testament of Charles Hopper, deceased. The alleged will bore date the 28th of October, 1861, and the deceased died on the first day of Hovember, four days afterwards. The paper was propounded by Chauncey Shaffer, one of the two persons named in it as executors, on the 6th day of the same month of Hovember. A citation was issued to the widow and next of kin, who appeared by proctors and counsel,…
1Opinion of the Court
Charles Hopper, the validity of whose alleged will is the subject of controversy on this appeal, died at his residence in Mott street, in the city of New York, on the 1st day of November, 1861, at the age of about sixty-seven years. He had no descendants living, but he left surviving him his widow, Hester, and a sister, Elizabeth Wiley, a widow, and six nephews and a neice, the children of a deceased brother, Thomas Hopper. Besides these, he left other relatives, not entitled to succeed to his estate upon intestacy, namely, three sons and a daughter of his sister Elizabeth Wiley, and a…
2Cited by37 opinions
- In re Estate of RedfieldCalifornia Supreme Court · 1897
- In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of EnoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921
- Knapp v. St. Louis Trust Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1906
- Scott v. GerrishCalifornia Supreme Court · 1900
- Riggs v. . American Tract SocietyNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
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