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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Proving an Alleged Codicil to the Will of William C. Harris, Deceased. Mabel H. Morphy, Appellant; Frank W. Crandall et al., as Executors, Respondents.
    
      Matter of Harris, 188 App. Div. 950, affirmed.
    (Argued January 6, 1920;
    decided January 20, 1920.)
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered May 14, 1919, modifying and affirming as modified a decree of the Chautauqua County Surrogate’s Court admitting to probate a paper propounded as a codicil to the will of William C. Harris, deceased. The codicil read as follows:
    “ Know All Men By These Presents, that I, William C. Harris, of Westfield, New York, do hereby make, publish and.declare this Codicil to my Last Will and Testament.
    
      “First. I do hereby cancel and revoke Articles Numbered Three (3) and Five (5) of my said Last Will and Testament.
    “ In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 26th day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
    “ WILLIAM C. HARRIS.”
    The contestant contended that there was nothing therein to show to what particular will the codicil referred, ’and that it was, therefore, null and void.
    
      Frank C. Ferguson for appellant.
    
      Arthur B. Ottaway for respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur; His cock, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ.