In re Seagrist
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Mary A. Straus and others, heirs at law and next of kin of Nicholas Seagrist, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of New York county, entered in said court on the 15th day of February, 1895, admitting to probate an instrument propounded as and for the last will and testament of Nicholas Seagrist, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
Nicholas Seagrist, a resident of the city of New York, died on the 14th day of April, 1894, after a sickness of a few days. He was a man between seventy and eighty years of age, who had, partly by inheritance, but much more by his own exertions, become possessed of an estate of over a quarter of a million of dollars. He was a bachelor, and for some years had lived with F. S. K. Sigrist and his wife Theresa, who was a niece of the testator, but who had lived in his family for many years before her marriage. He had other collateral relatives, with some of whom, so far as appears, he…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Tyler v. . GardinerNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
- Dilleber v. . Home Life Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- In re Lyddy's WillNew York Supreme Court · 1889
- Snyder v. . ShermanNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
3Cited by31 opinions
- In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of BurnhamAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1922
- In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of SprattAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- In re the Probate of the Alleged Last Will & Testament of HendersonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937
- In re Proving the Last Will & Testament of KingNew York Surrogate's Court · 1915
- In re the Estate of SalomonNew York Surrogate's Court · 1936
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