Ex parte Beers

Tee Surrogate.

The decedent acknowledged the subscription of his name, at the end of the will, to the two subscribing witnesses. The document, at the time, lay open on a desk, covered with a piece of blank paper, so that no part was visible but the attestation clause, the signature, and the last line or two of the will. The witnesses might have read the attestation, but they did not, and were not requested to do so. One of them states that he read the greater part if not all of the first line of the attestation; but that line does not state the nature of the instrument. Neither of them, in…