Ziegler v. Sutphin

The Monmouth County Orphans' Court admitted to probate as the will of Edward R. Heyer, deceased, a certain paper writing with the exception of the fourth paragraph therein which the court found that the testator had revoked. The paragraph excepted from probate gave the residue of testator's estate to Clarence Ziegler and Ethel, his wife. They appeal from so much of the decree of the Orphans' Court as denies probate to the residuary clause. The facts are these:

On Saturday, February 1, 1947, shortly before noon, testator called on his attorney, Mr. Thomas P. Doremus, and told him that he wanted…