In re the Probate of the Paper Propounded as the Will of Davison

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Testator was domiciled- and died in New Jersey. His will of personal property was made there,..while a minor. It was not good under the law of New Jersey. Held, that this was a question of the lex loci, and probate denied.

.Asa T. Davison lived and died in the.State of:Hew Jersey, on the .29th .of June, 1868, .aged eighteen years and ten months. The instrument^ offered as a will of personal property only, was, executed by him,' after .he had

attained the age,of eighteen years, iii the"State of New Jersey. It was admitted that by the "laws of that State, the instrument was invalid as á will of personal property,, the decedent not-possessing testamentary capacity, because not twenty-one years of age. On this state of facts argument was had before the Surrogate, on petition for probate! ." "