1 Mills Surr. 105 | N.Y. Sur. Ct. | 1899
This ease was tried before Mr. Surrogate Arnold, but has since been submitted to me after an extended oral argument. The testator executed his will May 9, 1887. It was drawn by Mr. William Allen Butler, in accordance with testator’s instructions; is entirely in Mr. Butler’s handwriting and was executed in the latter’s presence, the subscribing witnesses being all connected with Mr. Butler’s office. The only question raised in this contest is whether or not the testator was of sound mind and had full testamentary capacity at the time the will was executed. He was then a widower, about fifty-seven years of age, and entered into a second marriage at Geneva, Switzerland, on the 21st day of July, 1887, and it is conceded that within five days thereafter he became violently insane, was confined in an asylum near Paris about the middle of August, and after remaining there a number of weeks was brought to New York, where his insanity was judicially established and determined, and he was committed
Decreed accordingly.