New York Court of Appeals
In the Matter of the Probate of a Paper Propounded as the Last Will and Testament of Serena D. Turell, Deceased…
March 26, 1901166 N.Y. 330
Summary
The Court of Appeals affirmed the surrogate court's denial of probate, holding that the instrument failed to satisfy the statutory requirements of execution and publication because the testatrix neither signed in the presence of the witnesses nor communicated to them that the document was her will.