In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Bank of Jamestown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtEdgcomb, J.
By a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Chautauqua county, Mayme Smith, the widow of the decedent, has been deprived of the privilege of exercising the personal right of election given to a surviving spouse of a testator by section 18 *350of the Decedent Estate Law to take her distributive share of her husband’s estate as in intestacy. She challenges the correctness of this ruling.
The section of the Decedent Estate Law above referred to applies only in case the testator died after August 31, 1930, and left a will executed after that date.
Decedent died on the 22d day of August, 1933. He left a…
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