In re the Estate of Timko

Wingate, S.

The reasonably active imagination of the court is unable to conceive of a more bizarre, not to say fantastic, record than that which was evolved in this case after an exceptionally acrimonious trial occupying three full court days. The parties initiated their excursion into the realms of the unusual by a waiver of the provisions of section 347 of the Civil Practice Act, which inhibits the introduction of the testimony of interested parties in relation to personal transactions with the decedent, and with this inauspicious beginning, launched into a welter of wholly incompetent and…