In re Lampson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal "by .the contestant, Laura A. Brooks, from a decree of the surrogate of the county of Genesee, bearing date the 13th day of December, .1897, and entered in said Surrogate’s Court, admitting to probate the last will and testament of said William Lampson, deceased, and deciding that certain bequests in the 7th and 8th clauses of said will to the corporation of Yale College are lawful and valid, and that they are in no way affected or impaired because; the said will was…
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Appeal "by .the contestant, Laura A. Brooks, from a decree of the surrogate of the county of Genesee, bearing date the 13th day of December, .1897, and entered in said Surrogate’s Court, admitting to probate the last will and testament of said William Lampson, deceased, and deciding that certain bequests in the 7th and 8th clauses of said will to the corporation of Yale College are lawful and valid, and that they are in no way affected or impaired because; the said will was executed less than two months before the decease of the said William Lampsonthat the same are in no respects contrary to…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J.:
The testator, William'Lampson, died on the 14th day of Feb-■ruary, 1897, at which time he .was, and for many years prior thereto had been, a resident of the town of Le Roy, in the county of Gene-see, where he had amassed a fortune amounting to nearly or quite half a million of dollars. The value of .his real estate, at the time ■of the testator’s death, -was estimated to be about $75,000 to *51$125,000, and his personal property amounted to .nearly or quite $400,000.
On the 21st day of December, 1896, which was less than two months prior to his death, the testator made his last will and…
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