In re Chamot

Emile M. Chamot, as student, instructor, graduate student, associate professor, professor, and professor emeritus was intimately and continuously associated with Cornell University from 1887 until his death in 1950, at the age of eighty-two years. In 1897, he married Cora Genung, a well-educated woman and talented singer. No children were born of the marriage. Shortly after his death, Mrs. Chamot who is now seventy-seven years of age was adjudged incompetent.

Mrs. Chamot’s relatives consist of two nieces, Catherine Kindle, of Margate City, New Jersey, and Cora Winner, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and…