Legal Opinion

In re Prescott

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided December 15, 1879PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Application for the probate of a will. The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

'• ■ The Surrogate,-—The instrument in question bears evidence of having been changed, and it appears by the testimony of one of the subscribing witnesses who drew the will that the changes have been made since its execution. They were doubtless made by the testator, as over the respective changes he has written his initials in Ms own handwriting. In the tenth line he has erased and substantially obliterated the ñame “Nannie,” and on the sixth line of the second page he has stricken out the same name “Nannie,” and on the. next line the name “Prescott,” and in the ninth line he has erased the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McPherson v. ClarkNew York Surrogate's Court · 1854

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Lovell v. . QuitmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
  2. In re Carver's WillNew York Surrogate's Court · 1893
  3. In re the Probate of a Paper Propounded as the Last Will & Testament of ParkerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1917
  4. In re the Estate of SmithNew York Surrogate's Court · 1936
  5. Wetmore v. CarrylNew York Surrogate's Court · 1882

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