MATTER OF LEFFERTS


29 Misc.2d 594 (1961)

In the Matter of the Probate of the Will of Lewis L. Lefferts, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Westchester County.

July 7, 1961


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White & Case (Lyndon Arnold of counsel) and Smith, Ranscht & Croake (Thomas F. Croake of counsel), for petitioner. Sullivan, Donovan, Hanrahan, McGovern & Lane (John Lane and Gerald Donovan of counsel), for contestant. Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner (Benjamin A. Smith of counsel), for Washington Trust Company. Gordon Miller for Westerly Hospital. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Howard F. Danihy of counsel), for State of New York.


JOHN J. DILLON, S.

This is a contested probate proceeding, tried by the court without a jury. The decedent died on June 4, 1960, at the age of about eighty-five. The instrument offered for probate had been executed on August 19, 1958, and was the last of some 13 testamentary documents, both wills and codicils, known to have been made by the decedent since 1942. The validity of the 1958 will is challenged by...

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