In re the Probate of the Will of Methot

Stevens, Vice-Ordinary.

This is an appeal from the decree of the orphans court admitting the will of Edouwarcl Wenceslas Methofc to probate.

The testator was a French Canadian, born in the Parish of St. Croix, in the Province of Quebec, October 13th, 1839. He committed suicide in Red Bank, in this state, in June, 1914, at the age of seventy-six. After accumulating a considerable fortune as a lumberman, ho gave up his business and went to the city of Quebec to live. He purchased shares of a Quebec bank called La Caisse cTEconomie, and in 1886 ivas elected a director. In 1892 he became its…