Pilcher v. Pilcher
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond on an application to admit a will to probate. Judgment for the applicant. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
(after making the foregoing statement), delivered the opinion of the court.
Stripped of immaterialities, the dominant question presented by this record for our decision is the validity of a holograph will, at the end of which the writer, to authenticate the paper, has attached his initials by way of signature, instead of his full name. At the outset it is conceded that the precise question is of first impression in *362this jurisdiction, though affirmative precedent for the proposition is not lacking elsewhere. The circumstance is stressed by counsel for plaintiff in error that in McBride v.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Estate of KnoxSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
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- Dinning v. DinningSupreme Court of Virginia · 1904
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