Bridgeton pioneer., 1893-07-20
WHOLE NO. 1859
THE COOK WILL CASE.
The Court Declares David Cook
20 Have Been i'm Every Partic.
ular Capable OF Making q WIZ.

60 Have Been in Every Partac.
ular Capable OF Making O Wfll.
Judge Hoagland on Monday after
noon rendered bis decision in both the
Enoch I. Vanme!er and the David
Cook contested will cases, and In both
cases the decision was to admit bottr
wills to probate
In the case of David Cook the Court
decided that the testator was In all re-
spects competent and capable to make
his will and that the will offered for
probate was q genuine and valid will.
and would therefore be admitted to
probate.
He also put the costs of the contest
upon both the caveators and the
proponents and allowed counsel fees
of $500 side, all to come out of the
estate.
The decree is as follows:
SIN the matter of the probate of the
alleged will of David Cook, decd, late
of the County of Cumberland.
Deposition having been taken in
this matter before the Surrogate of
the County of Cumberland, to whom
1t was referred by the order of this
Court to take the evidence, and the
Court having considered the proofs
and counsel having been heard in be-
half OF the proponents and the cave
ators respectively, 1t Is on this 18th
day Of July, 1893, on motion of John
3. Mitchell, of the counsel for propOn-
ents. ordered, adjudged and decreed
that the instrument In writing pur-
porting to be the last will and testa-
ment of David Cook, deceased, and
offered for probate by the proponents,
was properly executed, and is genuine
and valid; that the said David Cook
at the time of executing said instru-
ment was In all respects competent to
execute the same, and was not under
restraint and undue influence, and
that the said instrument be and the
same hereby is admitted to probate,
and it is further ordered and decreed
that letters testamentory be issued to
Orestes Cook and William Iszard, the
surviving executors named in the said
will, and it is furthered ordered that
an allowance of five hundred dollars
be made to counsel for the proponents
and an allowance OF five hundred dol
ators, and that the said counsel fees
and the costs and expenses of this liti-
cation be paid out of the assets of the
said David Cook
This decision will be gratifying to a
good many. since the will seems to
have been justly drawn, devlsing the
estate equally among all the heirs.
In the case of the contest on the
admission to probate OF the will OF
Enoch T. Vanmeter, the decision took
the same course.
Four prisoners were brought In by
Sheriff Whitecar for sentence, they
having pleaded guilty at the morning
session. Three of them were sent to
States Prison for six months each, and
one was given sixty days in the Coun-
ty Jail.
Those sent to State Prison were the
we'll known William Smith, William
Southland and James Madden. Walter
Munyan was given sixty days in Jail.
The case of Charles II. Nickel, guar
dian, and of Charles H. Nickel, assig-
nee of Smith Davis were set for hear
ing at special court to be held ON
Monday, Aug. 7th.
In this latter G. Sc the Court thought
that the commissions credited to the
assignee On d mortgage were errone-
GUS, since the price of the mortgage
did not come into his hands.
Court adjourned until August 7th,
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