In re the Estate of Halpern

Christopher C. McGrath, S.

This is a proceeding for an adjudication that decedent physically revoked his last will, that a codicil to this will he deemed revoked by reason of the cancellation and revocation of the will and for a decree granting letters of administration to the decedent’s widow.

Upon all the evidence adduced herein on behalf of the petitioner, the court is satisfied that the will in question was physically revoked by the decedent himself by cutting his signature therefrom with a scissors; that the cancellation by the decedent was accompanied by an intention to revoke and that at…