New York Supreme Court May 15, 1886 (In re the Probate of the Will of Nichols)

Pratt, J.:

This is an appeal from a decree of the surrogate of Queens county, admitting to probate, what purports to be the lost or destroyed will of William H. Nichols, late of said county, deceased.

On the death of William H. Nichols no original, paper, such as the one admitted to probate, was found, but the proponent John H.