In re Hesdra's Will
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from surrogate’s court, Rockland county. This case is an appeal from the decree of the surrogate’s court of Bockland county admitting to probate a paper purporting to be the will of Edward D. Hesdra, proposed by Millard F. Onderdonk, who was named as executor therein.
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Appeal from surrogate’s court, Rockland county. This case is an appeal from the decree of the surrogate’s court of Bockland county admitting to probate a paper purporting to be the will of Edward D. Hesdra, proposed by Millard F. Onderdonk, who was named as executor therein. The will was contested by Amanda Tordoff, who claimed to be the next of kin, by one Estelle Hesdra, an alleged heir, and by the attorney general for the state, claiming that the deceased had died without heirs. The contestant Tordoff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBarnard, P. J.
The evidence is voluminous, but the issue finally depends upon the genuineness of the signature of the testator and the witness Frothingham. Edward D. Hesdra, a resident of Bockland county, died in July, 1884. The proposed will was made September 11, 1883. The will was drawn by one John V. Onderdonk, and he is one of the witnesses. The will so entirely accords with the surroundings of the testator that no reasonable hypothesis can be entertained that the will was the invention of John V. Onderdonk; and this view of the case is met by proof that the will was drawn in accordance with the…
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- In re Hesdra's EstateNew York Surrogate's Court · 1892