Case ID: misc_95/html/0463-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fowler, S.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Matter of the Estate of James Neil, Deceased.
    (Surrogate’s Court, New York County,
    May, 1916.)
    Wills — when admitted to probate as will of personal property may be also admitted as will of real property.
    Where a will relating to both real and personal property is probated as a will o£ personal property only, it may, on allegations that at the time it was offered for probate proponent was ignorant of the existence of any real property, be admitted to probate as a will of real property also.
    Proceeding upon the probate of a will.
    Blandy, Mooney & Shipman, for petitioner.
    Frank H. Richmond, for contestant James Neil, Jr.
    Harold A. Callan, for contestant Virginia Lockwood.
    Wilbur Larremore, special guardian for Violet Neil.
   Fowler, S.

This is a probate proceeding for the probate of the will of testator as a will of real property and comes before me on objection to probate. This same will was admitted to probate by a decree of this court on July 3,1915, as a will of personal property. 90 Mise. Rep. 537. The present proceeding is brought, so the petition alleges, for the reason that at the time the will was originally offered for probate the proponent was ignorant of the existence of any real property. The will in its terms bequeaths and devises personal and real property. Upon the hearing counsel for the contestant waived the proof of factum and agreed that the testimony be closed. The main objection urged by contestant is that the former probate proceeding is a bar to this proceeding. With this I do not agree. The objections are dismissed. Present decree admitting the paper propounded as a will of real property.

Probate decreed.