Bidelman Estate

Dissenting Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones:

The majority opinion seems to me to proceed upon an erroneous legal premise and, as a natural consequence, unnecessarily inflicts a hardship upon the decedent’s only daughter and testamentary favorite. But, more serious still, is the effect in general which the decision is bound to have, for it virtually constitutes a flat repudia- ( tion of the rationale whereon there have been uniformly' based a century’s decisions by. the courts of this State relative to the care and protection of the property of? weak or feeble-minded persons who, by due…