Decree reversed on the law and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
No questions of fact have been considered. In our opinion, the learned Surrogate committed three errors in his rulings on the admissibility of evidence: (1) he excluded testimony regarding conversations between an attorney and decedent as privileged, even though petitioners, who were claiming the privilege, failed to come forward and establish the confidential nature of the conversations...
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