FOSTER v. REISS


18 N.J. 41 (1955)

112 A.2d 553

JULIA E. FOSTER AND MARGARET WALDNER, EXECUTRICES OF THE ESTATE OF ETHEL REISS, DECEASED, AND JULIA E. FOSTER AND LESLIE FOSTER, TRUSTEES FOR ETHEL REISS, DECEASED, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. ADAM REISS, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided March 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ishmael Sklarew argued the cause for the appellants.

Mr. John T. Keefe argued the cause for the respondent (Mr. William F. McCloskey, attorney).


The opinion of the court was delivered by VANDERBILT, C.J.

On April 30, 1951 the decedent, Ethel Reiss, entered a hospital in New Brunswick where she was to undergo major surgery. Just prior to going to the operating room on May 4, 1951, she wrote the following note in her native Hungarian language to her husband, the defendant herein:

"My Dearest Papa:

In the kitchen, in the bottom of the cabinet, where the blue frying pan is, under the wine bottle...

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