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Lawyer Supports Will In Court Battle Here
A Ridgefield stockbroker Robert A. Lancaster 60 favors leaving the lion’s share of his 150000 estate to friend Mrs Mabel Mooney Dorsey Chisolm 50 of New York City. The trial resumed with testimony from lawyer Eugene D Wadsworth and bank officials about the April 25 1957 signing in Mrs Chisolm’s apartment before Lancaster’s death from cancer two weeks later. The will is being contested by Lancaster’s brother niece and nephew who claim he was brainwashed. the Bank of New York executor defends the document.
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Robert A. Lancaster
Ridgefield
Mabel Mooney Dorsey Chisolm
Park Avenue
New York City
Superior Court
Eugene D. Wadsworth
Mr. Lancaster
Layine
Mrs. Chisolm
New York
Mr. Wadsworth
Taylor, Wadsworth and Burr
James C. Shannon
John E. Lancaster
New Canaan
Rosemary W. Gaynor
Southampton
Barley H. Warburton, Jr
Ipswich
Mass
Lancaster
Mr. Warburton
Margaret Warburton
Chisolm
M. Ogden Chislom
William F. Brodhead
Seventh Avenue
John Lancaster
Gaynor
John W. Arthur
Westport
Bank of New York
Arthur
William J. Beer
Mr. Beer
Wadsworth
Connecticut
Beers
Brodhead
Amzy 0
Shock
West 25Th Street
God
Reed F. Shields
William K. Vanderbilt
Jamaica
B.W
Warburton
Massachusetts
Morgan P. Ames
Stamford
C. Driscoll Grimes
Greenwich