In re the Probate of the Will of Mulligan

This is an appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Otsego, dated the 7th of April, 1969, which denied probate of an instrument offered as the last will and testament of the decedent.

The decedent, Mary Agnes Mulligan, a resident of Otsego County, died at the. age of 75 years. During the major portion of her lifetime she operated a farm which she owned and upon *138her death there was found in the said farmhouse upon a bureau in her bedroom a paper instrument which has been offered for probate. The said paper instrument was in will form and consisted of one sheet of paper.…