Case ID: tuck-surr_1/html/0087-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Surrogate.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The probate of the paper propounded as the Will of Amelia Levy.
    A person named in a will as the executor, and who -is also a subscribing witness, may he examined as a witness on the probata
   The Surrogate.

The question is raised, whether a person, named as the executor in the will, can be examined on its probate, where he is also a subscribing witness.There can be no doubt that he can be a witness. But in such a case, the Surrogate will look very carefully into the will, and into the circumstances attending its execution, since the fact of the same person’s being both executor and witness is suspicious in itself. The will in this case is admitted to probate because no undue influence appears.