Case Name: In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament and Codicil Thereto of Benjamin F. Lane, Deceased, as a Will and Codicil of Real and Personal Property. Emma D. Reeve, Appellant; Violet Lane Striecker and Lourine Lane, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1932-10
Citations: 236 A.D. 814
Docket Number: Appeal No. 4
Parties: In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament and Codicil Thereto of Benjamin F. Lane, Deceased, as a Will and Codicil of Real and Personal Property. Emma D. Reeve, Appellant; Violet Lane Striecker and Lourine Lane, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 236
Pages: 814–814

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament and Codicil Thereto of Benjamin F. Lane, Deceased, as a Will and Codicil of Real and Personal Property. Emma D. Reeve, Appellant; Violet Lane Striecker and Lourine Lane, Respondents.
(Appeal No. 4.)

Opinion:
— Decree of the Surrogate's Court of Queens county rejecting for probate the documents offered as the last will and testament and codicil of Benjamin F. Lane, deceased, reversed on the law, with costs to appellant, payable out of the estate, and the matter remitted to the surrogate to enter a decree admitting the will and codicil to probate. The evidence adduced on the trial raised no issue that should have been submitted to the jury. (Matter of Burnham, 234 N. Y. 475.) Kapper, Scudder, Tompkins and Davis, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., concurs for reversal but favors a new trial.