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

In the Matter of the Will of Daniel Hunt, Deceased. George N. Chandler, as General Guardian of Raymond F. Chandler, an Infant, Appellant; Harrison G. Hunt et al., Individually and as Executors of Daniel Hunt, Deceased, Respondents.
    
      Will — construction — erroneous decree of surrogate that testator died intestate as to portion of his estate.
    
    
      Matter of Hunt, 207 App. Div. 127, affirmed.
    (Argued February 18, 1924;
    decided April 1, 1924.)
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 11, 1923, which reversed a decree of the Westchester County Surrogate’s Court construing the will of Daniel Hunt, deceased, and holding that he died intestate as to a certain portion thereof. The Appellate Division held that by the 2d paragraph of his will testator devised all of his property to his two sons.
    
      Arthur R. Wilcox for appellant.
    
      William Baruch and Sydney A. Syme for Harrison G. Hunt, individually and as executor, respondent.
    
      Thomas Holden, Jr., and Henry K. Heyman for Hobart P. Hunt, individually and as executor, respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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