In re the Estate of Watts

This is a landmark ease in the history of the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Hamilton. The questions involved are enough to curl a country Judge’s hair.

Three petitions have been filed in connection with this estate. One, a petition for probate, filed by Lewis P. X. Gotignola, propounded an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of the decedent. Another petition was filed by one William Wells, a brother of the decedent, seeking letters of *622administration. And, finally, a petition by Louise Lieber as the common-law wife of the decedent, also seeking letters of…