Legal Opinion
Collins v. Collins
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided April 8, 1924No. 17977PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
There are three questions presented by this voluminous record, upon which this court is asked to pass:
1. May a will containing several items which have been specifically revoked by a codicil after-wards destroyed be revived by oral testimony giving verbal declaration of the intent of the testator ?
2. May an attorney employed to draft a codicil to a will, which codicil has been afterwards destroyed, testify to the fact of having drawn such codicil at the request of the testator, and identify a carbon copy thereof, if such attorney does not testify to communications between the testator and…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Williams v. MilesNebraska Supreme Court · 1903
- In Re the Probate of the Will of CunnionNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
- In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of EnoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921
- Pickens v. DavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- In Re of Proving the Last Will & Testament of CampbellNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Doyle v. ReevesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
- Redman v. Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of PennsylvaniaOhio Supreme Court · 1994
- Hamilton v. BayerNebraska Supreme Court · 1928
- In Re Estate of MortonWyoming Supreme Court · 1967
- Gould, Larson, Bennet, Wells & McDonnell, P.C. v. PanicoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2005
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