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In the Matter of Proving the Will of Sarah A. Delmar, Deceased. Henry F. Barnes et al., Appellants; The National City Bank of New York et al., Respondents.
    
      Will — probate contested on grounds of testamentary incapacity and that paper propounded was not will of deceased.
    
    
      Matter of Delmar, 220 App. Div. 827, affirmed.
    (Argued March 27, 1928;
    decided April 10, 1928.)
    Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 24, 1927, which unanimously affirmed a decree of the New York County Surrogate’s Court admitting to probate a proper propounded as the last will and testament of Sarah A. Delmar, deceased. Probate was contested on the ground of testamentary incapacity to make a will and upon the further ground that the paper propounded was not the will of the deceased. (See 243 N. Y. 7.)
    
      S. Wallace Dempsey and S. Michael Ress for appellants.
    
      Robert McLeod Jackson and H. Victor Crawford for National City Bank, respondent.
    
      James F. Donnelly for Fanny P. Evans et al., respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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