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In the Matter of the Probate of the Will of Margaret Crouse, Deceased. Menzo Crouse, Appellant; New York Branch of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Respondent.
    
      Will — probate — mutilation of instrument by removal of signature.
    
    
      Matter of Crouse (Will), 205 App. Div. 135, affirmed.
    (Argued May 12, 1924;
    decided May 23, 1924.)
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered June 4, 1923, which reversed a decree of the Otsego County-Surrogate’s Court denying probate of a paper propounded as the last will and testament of Margaret Crouse, deceased, and directed that the same be admitted to probate. The question was whether the instrument had been revoked by the testatrix by cutting out her signature therefrom. The Appellate Division held that the mutilation was done after the death of testatrix.
    
      Charles E. Hardies and W. T. Welden for appellant.
    
      William T. Byrne and Walter Seabury Eaton for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.