Williams v. Stewart

YORK, P. J.—

Joseph Simmons, a childless widower, by ,his..last will which he executed on. October 16, 1942, devised certain real property to friends of his, respondents herein, and named Mrs. Ruth Stewart, executrix and residuary legatee. Mr. Simmons died on March 22, 1943, at the age of eighty-one years, and Mrs. Stewart petitioned the court for the probate of the will and for letters testamentary, where upon Christine Williams, a niece of testator’s predeceased wife, filed her opposition to the prohate of said will on the grounds: (1) that it was not legally executed; (2) that testator was…