Pettit Will Contested

New York, 1895

THE SURROGATE'S COURT.

Wills Proved and Accounts Progressed — To-Day's Calendar.

Surrogate Weller on Friday admitted to probate the wills of Mary McEvoy, Catharine Reimals, and Gustav A. F. W. Erhardt.

Accounting was had in the estate of Ann Stockholm, and decree filed.

In the matter of the accounting of the executor of Frederick P. J. Clark, which was set down for Friday, an adjournment was taken until today, the guardian for the infant having been injured on Friday by a trolley car.

Testimony was taken in the contested will case of Johann Anton Kutger, of College Point.

Testimony was taken in the contested will case of Mary Ann Pettit, of Westbury. Dr. Bogert, of Roslyn, testified that he attended the testatrix professionally. She was suffering from aphasia. The disease affected her speech so that she could not utter a sentence. So far as he could see, the disease did not affect her mind. At the request of her son William, he examined her to see if she was competent to make a will, and arrived at the conclusion that she was.

Margaret McGuire testified that in 1871 she went to nurse the testatrix and took care of her for 18 months, and during that time never heard her speak except to say "yes" or "no." She recognized her stepchildren when they came to see her, and appeared glad to see them.

Yesterday Surrogate Weller admitted to probate the wills of Barbara Rocklein, David M. Tier, Ann Eliza Rose, William H. Hoople and Eliza Killila.

Accounting was had and decree tiled in the estate of Mary A. Acker.

Testimony was taken in the contested will case of Mary A. Pettit. Louisa Pettit testified that the testatrix used to say that she would not leave her relatives anything. Thomas B. Seaman, who drew the will, said that the testatrix remarked that "the money came from the Pettits and it should go back to them."

To-day's calendar — Will cases of Theresa Terron, Peter Dries, Frost Coleman, Johanna A. Kutzer, and August Schaefer; accounting estates of John H. Austin, Frederick P. J. Clark, and Sarah Ann Johnson; matter of estates of Garret Nostrand and James C. Cloyd.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 8.