Case Name: Prince v. Hazleton, 20 J. R. 502
Court: New York Court for the Correction of Errors
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1799
Citations: 1 Lock. Rev. Cas. 557
Docket Number: 
Parties: Prince v. Hazleton, 20 J. R. 502.
Judges: 
Reporter: Lockwood's Reversed Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 557–557

Head Matter:
Prince v. Hazleton, 20 J. R. 502.
Nuncupative Will.

Opinion:
The Court of Errors held in this case, reversing the decisions of the Surrogate and of the Court of Probates, that a nuncupative will is not good unless it be made when the testator is in extremis, or overtaken by sudden and violent sickness and has not time to make a will. And that the words, "last sickness" within the provision of the statute, (Sess. 36, ch. 31, § 14,) is to be understood last extremity.