In Re the Probate of the Will of Walker
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made February 13, 1892, which affirmed a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Kings county, admitting to probate the will of Robert J. Walker, deceased, and deciding certain questions in reference thereto raised on probate. By the terms of the will, various legacies, amounting in all to over $65,000, were given to beneficiaries named.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made February 13, 1892, which affirmed a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Kings county, admitting to probate the will of Robert J. Walker, deceased, and deciding certain questions in reference thereto raised on probate. By the terms of the will, various legacies, amounting in all to over $65,000, were given to beneficiaries named. These legacies were described as moneys deposited by the testator in various savings banks named, the deposits in each case save one, having been made by him as trustee…
1Opinion of the CourtMaynard, J.
Upon a proceeding for the probate of the will of Bev. Bobert J. Walker, deceased, before the surrogate of Kings county, three questions were submitted to the court for adjudication, and have been passed upon by it.
First. Whether the testator was the owner, at the time of his death, of the moneys represented by deposits in various savings banks in New York city, Brooklyn and elsewhere, aggregating over $65,000, and which are specially referred to in different provisions of his will.
Second. Whether he was indebted, at the time of his death, to his daughter, Mrs. Catherine E. Bond, in the sum of…
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