Von Hoffman v. Ward
New York Surrogate's Court
Application for the probate of an instrument propounded as the will of Samuel Ward, Jr. The probate thereof was contested by the father of decedent, Samuel Ward.
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Application for the probate of an instrument propounded as the will of Samuel Ward, Jr. The probate thereof was contested by the father of decedent, Samuel Ward. A citation directed to said Samuel Ward was issued on the petition of Louis A. Von Hoffman, which set forth that the decedent, whose domicil was in the city of Hew York, but who, at the time of his death, was sojourning in the empire of Prance, died at the city of Paris, on or about the 19 th day of September, 1866; that on or about said date he there duly made, executed and published, in accordance with the testamentary laws of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Surrogate.—The testimony shows that the decedent was above twenty-one years of age when he executed the instrument propounded, and died, That in 1857, the decedent’s mother, for some domestic reason not disclosed, separated from her husband, who still resides in this city, and that she, with her infant son and her mother, and after she had received a conveyance *257from her husband of a house and lot in this city, from which she derived her support, went to Europe for economy of living, and to educate her son. That they sojourned at different places in Europe, the mother sometimes living…
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