Ordered that the decree is reversed, on the law, with costs payable by the respondent personally, and probate is denied.
There was no evidence of a meeting of the minds between the testator and the attesting witnesses that the instrument they were being asked to sign as witnesses was testamentary in character (see, EPTL 3-2.1 [a] [3]; see also, Matter of Pulvermacher,
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