In re the Estate of Fox

Wingate, S.

The facts of the present proceeding are sufficiently unusual to render them worthy of note despite the fact that no contest has been interposed to the probate of the propounded instrument.

*956The document is on a printed form and purports to have been executed on August 25, 1906. On the line customarily used for the signature of the testator there appears an ordinary cross-mark. Below this is an attestation clause in customary form which, among other things, recites that the testatrix, Mary Fox, “ subscribed her name to this instrument by making her mark in our presence,” etc. Below…