Legal Opinion
In re the Probate of the Will of Pascal
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 15, 1955PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
The paper offered for probate is a single-page instrument, handwritten and addressed to petitioner-respondent, who is not related by blood or marriage to decedent.
It reads as follows:
“ To Zaya Kingman-Speelman 470 Park Avenue N. Y.
This is my will if I should die on this my trip to India you are my sol [sic] heiress.
Signed the 22 February 1954
Gabriel Pascal in New — York City
Witnesses
Daisy Haang
K. T. Kan”
*457Decedent never made any trip to India on or subsequent to February 22, 1954. He died on July 6, 1954, at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City after a prolonged illness. This was shown by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In Re the Probate of the Will of PoonarianNew York Court of Appeals · 1922
3Cited by3 opinions
- In re the Estate of CoonsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- In re the Will of DoepferNew York Surrogate's Court · 1958
- In re the Estate of DoepferNew York Surrogate's Court · 1957