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In the Matter of the Probate of the Will of Rosalie Nowak, Deceased. Mary Betkowska et al., Appellants; John Nowak, as Executor, Respondent.
    
      Will — probate — objections to probate of will overruled.
    
    
      Matter of Nowah, 220 App. Div. 737, affirmed.
    (Submitted November 21, 1927;
    decided December 6, 1927.)
    Appeal from an.order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 22, 1927, which affirmed a decree of the Kings County Surrogate’s Court admitting to probate the will of Rosalie Nowak, deceased. Probate was contested on the grounds that the instrument was not the last will of the decedent; that its execution was not her free, unconstrained or voluntary act; that its execution was obtained through undue influence or fraud; that the decedent lacked testamentary capacity at the time of its execution; that it was not executed in conformity with the statute, and that it was invalid, illegal and void.
    
      Walter Carroll Low for appellants.
    
      Emmet L. Holbrook for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Bbien, JJ.