In this executor's accounting proceeding the primary question involves the validity and effect of a right of election asserted by the surviving spouse under section 18 of the Decedent Estate Law. At the date of his death the only asset of the estate consisted of real property located in New Jersey.
The decedent died domiciled in Westchester County on March 8, 1951, survived by a widow and a son as his sole distributees...
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