FRIEDEL, ETC. v. Blechman

Lillie E. North, a 72 year old widow who had neither children nor descendants died at Sinai Hospital on 7 December 1965. Her next of kin at the time of her death were her brother, Irvin Eisner; a niece, Marcia Eisner, the only child of a deceased brother, Daniel Eisner, who died in 1963; and three nieces, Geraldine Blechman, Marcia Dahne, and Charlotte Kunkoski, and a nephew, William Eisner, all children of a deceased brother, Louis Eisner, who died in 1958.

On 1 November 1965, while a patient at the hospital, Mrs. North executed a will which disposed of an estate later inventoried at some…