In re Proving the Last Will and Testament of Wood
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the contestant, Mattie S. Bitz, from a decree of the Surrogate’s .Court of the county of Bichmond, entered in said Surrogate’s Court ®n the 2d day of May, 1910, admitting to -probate a- paper propounded as the last will and testament of Jacobson W. -Wood, ¡deceased.'
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The decision of this appeal might well be made to rest upon the reasoning' of the learned surrogate in an opinion handed down, but counsel urges so insistently that the decree should be reversed that we have concluded to point out some further considerations which justify-admitting the paper -to probate as the last will and testamént of the deceased. It is conceded that there is but a single question involved. The paper propounded concededly-conforms toi all of the requirements of the statute (2 R. S. 63, § 40; now Decedent Estate Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 13; Laws of 1909, chap.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of AckermanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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- In re the Estate SidenbergNew York Surrogate's Court · 1921
- In re the Accounting of BridgmanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1960
- In re the Probate of the Will of MoerlinsNew York Surrogate's Court · 1950
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