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MATTER OF GRIFFING

17 Misc.2d 802 (1959)

In the Matter of the Construction of the Will of Robert P. Griffing, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Suffolk County.

July 6, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Griffing, Smith, Tasker & Lundberg for Robert P. Griffing, Jr., and another, petitioners.

Henry M. Zaleski for James Lord, Jr., respondent.

EDGAR F. HAZLETON, S.

The decedent, Robert P. Griffing, Jr., was a member of the New York State Bar for 50 years, a banker and highly experienced in the practice peculiar to Surrogate's Courts. He drafted his own will in which he provided for his stepson, James Lord, Jr., in this language:

"EIGHTH: — I direct my Executor hereinafter named, after the payment of funeral and administration expenses...

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