MATTER OF MURTLOW


258 A.D.2d 686 (1999)

685 N.Y.S.2d 323

In the Matter of the Estate of VIOLA B. MURTLOW, Deceased. JASON DOWNING, Respondent; DORIS PIKE, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided February 4, 1999.


Crew III, J.

Viola B. Murtlow (hereinafter decedent) died in May 1995 at the age of 89 leaving a will dated October 4, 1990 naming her attorney, Donald Campbell, as executor and petitioner and certain charitable organizations as beneficiaries. At the time of her death, decedent was a widow and had no children. Thereafter, in June 1996, petitioner offered the will for probate and respondent, one of decedent's first cousins, filed objections thereto contending, inter...

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