Matter of Phelan
2005 NY Slip Op 03515 [17 AD3d 1142]
April 29, 2005
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 22, 2005


In the Matter of the Estate of Helen M. Phelan, Deceased. James J. McConkey, Respondent; David M. Phelan, Appellant.

[*1]Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate's Court, Onondaga County (Peter N. Wells, S.), entered June 16, 2004. The decree adjudged that the instrument offered for probate in this proceeding is valid and issued letters testamentary to petitioner.

It is hereby ordered that the decree so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs for the reasons stated in decision at Surrogate's Court. Present—Pigott, Jr., P.J., Green, Kehoe, Martoche and Hayes, JJ.