In re the Estate of Kaminsky

Appeal by the executrix of the last will and testament of deceased from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Ulster County entered in a proceeding instituted pursuant to sections 205 and 206 of the Surrogate’s Court Act which sustained inter vivos gifts of $6,000 and $100 allegedly made by deceased to a daughter and granddaughter respectively. On December 2, 1957 deceased, then about 70 years of age and long afflicted with diabetes and heart disease, fractured her hip in a fall which necessitated *691her immediate removal to a hospital where she was confined until her death on April 20, 1958.…