In re the Estate of Breding

Slater, S.

Israel H. Mandel, an attorney of Brooklyn, filed in this court on October 2, 1936, decedent’s will dated September 8, 1933. It was a carbon copy of an executed original. It does not disclose on its face that it was one of two original examples.

On October 5, 1936, decedent’s widow filed an application for letters of administration upon the husband’s estate, alleging that he died intestate. The petitioner further alleges, upon information and belief, that the decedent, on September 8, 1933, executed a paper writing purporting to be a will; that a carbon copy thereof was delivered by…