2 Mills Surr. 187 | N.Y. Sur. Ct. | 1901
The instrument offered for probate bears date January 2, 1895, at which time the decedent was of the age of about eighty-two years. On December 26, 1894, only a week previous, in a proceeding in the Supreme Court against the decedent a verdict was rendered by a jury to the effect that she was at that time “ incompetent to manage herself or her affairs, or her lands, tenements, goods 'and chattels.” This verdict was joined in by the three commissioners who had been appointed by the court, and on January 24, 1895, after hearing arguments of counsel, an order of the court was made by Hon. George 0. Barrett, justice, by which a motion for a new trial was denied, the finding of the jury was confirmed and a trust company was appointed the committee of the estate of the decedent. No appeal seems to have been taken from this order, and therbafter and until the death of the decedent in 1899 her af
Probate denied.