MATTER OF UHL


29 Misc.2d 124 (1961)

In the Matter of the Probate of the Will of Julia Uhl, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Westchester County.

May 26, 1961


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander J. Brown for petitioner.


JOHN J. DILLON, S.

This is another example of the melancholy efforts of laymen to formulate their own wills. The propounded instrument is self-prepared and holographic. It contains no formal signature, but at the end of the dispositive provisions the decedent wrote "I Julia Uhl. Have written this." If she had stopped there, the instrument, which was duly witnessed, might be held valid. But the decedent continued as follows: "Wittessers (I desire Melvin...

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