In re the Application for Probate of the Will of Lockwood

The Surrogate.

Seley Lockwood died at South Westerlo on the 20th of October, 1888, aged 72 years. On the 10th of February, 1880, he executed the proposed will, with the formalities required by law, in the presence of two witnesses who had seen him only a few times, and knew very little of him, or of his antecedents. His estate consisted of personal property only, deposited in savings banks, and which had been so kept for many years. A considerable portion of it was in the National Savings Bank at Albany, and the other books of his bank-deposits were left thereat by him for safe-keeping. Mr.…