MATTER OF WEEKS


198 Misc. 819 (1950)

In the Matter of the Construction of The Will of Orlo J. Weeks, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Monroe County.

October 27, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oswald P. Backus and Sidney K. Backus for George W. Weeks, petitioner.

Louis S. Pierce, special guardian for Robert W. Egger and others, infants, and unknowns, respondents.


WITMER, S.

Petitioner seeks a construction of testator's will which was admitted to probate in this court on June 19, 1902. He contends that an absolute fee in testator's real estate was devised to him by said will. The will was written in longhand, is poorly punctuated, and contains errors in spelling and in capitalization, and in one instance an obvious misnaming of petitioner. It contains devises of...

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