In re the Estate of Van Riper

Wingate, S.

The prolonged absence of controversy in this court respecting the extent of the particularization properly requirable from a probate contestant who asserts the invalidity of the propounded document on the grounds of fraud or undue influence had encouraged this court in the hope that litigants had come to understand that the principles in this regard enunciated in Matter of Mullin (143 Misc. 256) had become the accepted law of this department.

Based on Matter of Martin (151 Misc. 93), Matter of Meyers (158 id. 942), Matter of Frank (6 N. Y. Supp. [2d] 565, not otherwise reported) and…