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In the Matter of the Probate of the Will of Robert G. McClear, Deceased. Robert E. McClear et al., Appellants; Sarah A. McClear, Respondent.
    
      Will — probate contested on ground of mental incapacity.
    
    
      Matter of McClear, 214 App. Div. 683, affirmed.
    (Argued December 14, 1927;
    decided January 10, 1928.)
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered December 23, 1925, which reversed a decree of the Jefferson County Surrogate’s Court denying probate of a paper propounded as the last will of Robert G. McClear, deceased, and remitted the matter to the Surrogate’s Court with a direction to admit the will to probate. The will was contested on the ground that at the time of its making the testator was mentally incompetent. Nathaniel F. Breen for appellants.
    
      Delos M. Cosgrove and Loren E. Harter for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.