Court Opinion

ID: 5254376
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 18:23:13.48567+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:27:59.613828
License: Public Domain

Decree reversed and new trial granted, with costs to appellants to abide *907event, payable out of the estate. Held, 1. That the declarations of the daughter Ida, the residuary legatee and devisee, were incompetent and so prejudicial as to require a new trial. (Matter of Kennedy, 167 N. Y. 163; Matter of Mayer, 184 id. 54, 61; Matter of Van Dawalker, 63 App. Div. 550.) 2. That the evidence is insufficient to support the finding of undue influence or lack of testamentary capacity. All concurred.