In re the Probate of the Will of Banta

Savarese, S.

Theodore M. Banta became seriously ill at Montreal, Canada, on May 16, 1953, and died on the same day. Before his death the attending physician penned for him on a single sheet of white paper a testamentary instrument which he subscribed at the end thereof and whereat there also appears under the word “Witness” the signature of the doctor-draftsman and that of one Gr. L. Kingsbury. By the terms of the writing decedent’s mother receives the income of his estate for her life. The remainder is divided upon her death equally among his two sisters and one Margaret Kingsbury. Decedent’s…