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Show CONTEST FOR BKi ESTATE Brother 96 Years Old Contests Palmer Will. NEW YORK, Jan. S A contest over the $rs"O.Xi0 estate of Francis A Palmer, former for-mer president of the Broadway bank, woa begun In the Supreme court todav James i Palmer of San Francisco, 96 years old and brother of the testator und ertrude A. Gnapp and Mary C Keppner of WaJI-Ingford. WaJI-Ingford. Conn . nieces of the teatator. are tt.. contestants In his will Mr. Palmer left about $luo.-000 $luo.-000 to relatives and friends and the re-mainder re-mainder of Ida fortune to religious and eduratlonal Institutions and to th- Francis Asbury Palmer fund It Is with the executors ex-ecutors of these latter bequests that the three heirs are contesting, charging that the will was procured by fraud |