In re the Probate of a Paper Writing Purporting to be the Last Will & Testament of Horton

This is an appeal by the proponent from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county, entered July 18, 1916, denying the petition herein for the probate of the will of George W. Horton, deceased, dated April S', 1902, and dismissing- the proceedings herein.

The alleged testator died in the State of Ohio on September 14, 1913, at the age of over eightv-six years. He was born on City Island, then Westchester county, now Hew York city and the comity of Bronx, on September 14, 1827, and lived on City Island until about 1906, when he moved with his daughter, the proponent, to White…