THE SURROGATE'S COURT.

New York, 1895

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

Surrogate Weller on Friday admitted to probate the will of Hannah H. Simonson. Accountings were had and decrees filed in the estates of Maria McCormick, Sarah Jane Frederick, Phebe Ann Creed, and Thomas Pettit. Objections were filed to the probate of the will of Frances F. Coles, of Far Rockaway, by Thomas L. Coles, her husband. The estate is valued at $10,000. The contestant claims that fraud and undue influence was used and that the will was not properly drawn.

A contest was also made of the will of Teresa Delaney of Rockville Centre, who left $1,500 to her sister, Mary E. Downing, and $100 to Father Carroll, her priest, and the remainder of her estate, valued at $15,000 to her husband. The contestants offered in evidence a letter purporting to have been written by deceased to her brother the day before the will was made, in which she stated that her husband was trying to grab everything from her, and she did not mean he should have anything. The only person present to identify the letter was the brother, who, being an interested party, the evidence was ruled out and the letter was held for identification.

The will of Nancy M. Titus of Wheatley, town of Oyster Bay, who left an estate valued at $5,000 is contested by her children.

Surrogate Weller yesterday admitted to probate the wills of Maria Margaretta Keisel, Elizabeth A. Day, Winfield A. Roe, Elizabeth J. Jackson, Maria Thurston and Maria Hendrickson.

Accountings were had and decrees filed in the estates of Lucinda Fowler, James B. Smith and Charles A. Willis.

To-day's calendar — Will cases of Michael Moran, Mary C. Norris, Phebe T. Smith, Sarah L. Hart, Frost Coleman, August Schaefer, Nancy M. Titus, Teresa J. Delaney, and Mary McEvoy; accounting estates of Joaquin J. Francke and Joseph Meade.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 8.