Legal Opinion

In re Proving the Instrument Propounded for Probate, as & for the Last Will & Testament of Moore

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided March 15, 1905Published

Proceedings upon the probate of a will.

1Opinion of the Court

Marcus, S.

—Chester Moore, the decedent, a prosperous-, business man of Buffalo, died March 15, 1904, leaving a holographic will, dated January 28, 1903. He left an estate consisting entirely of money and other personal property, estimated at about $50,000, in which will he left to his widow, Caroline B. Moore, about $10,000; to his brother, Peter L. Moore, $5,000; to a Miss Bergtold, $10,000, and to his widow the income of the residuary estate, and, upon her decease, such-residuary estate to his brother and his brother’s children,., equally.

*527The relation of Miss Bergtold to the testator is not…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Baskin v. . BaskinNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
  2. In Re the Revocation of the Last Will & Testament of NelsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
  3. In re the Probate of a Paper Propounded as the Last Will & Testament of AkersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
  4. Trustees of Auburn Seminary v. . CalhounNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
  5. In Re the Probate of the Will of BernseeNew York Court of Appeals · 1894

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