New York Court of Appeals February 28, 1968 (In re the Estate of Clark)

Chief Judge Fuld.

This appeal poses an interesting and important question concerning a widow’s right of election to take against her husband’s will. More particularly, may her husband, domiciled in a foreign state, by selecting New York law to regulate his testamentary dispositions, cut off or otherwise affect the more favorable right given his widow to elect by the law of their domicile?