Edwards v. Edwards
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
On appeal from a decree of the orphans court of Cumberland county admitting to probate a will purporting to have been made by Steen Edwards.
1Opinion of the Court
Reed, Vice-Ordinary.
Steen Edwards died April 24th, 1900. On March 20th preceding his death the will in question was executed. By it he left his property to his eight children, all sons. Five of them filed a caveat in the surrogate’s office and now prosecute this appeal.
*225The grounds of attack are mental incapacity of the testator and undue influence exerted upon him by his son Theodore E.
At the date of the making of the will the testator vas a very old man—ninety years of age. For a period preceding his death, reaching back several months, he had exhibited a progressive mental decline. The…
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