Legal Opinion

Jones Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided November 20, 1959No. 2; no. 2598 of 1958Published

1Opinion of the Court

Bolger, J.,

We have before us a new set of preliminary objections filed by proponent to a second amended petition sur appeal from the register’s decree of probate. We recently disposed of contestant’s preliminary objections to an amended petition sur appeal, wherein we authorized contestant to file the new petition to incorporate upon the record what might have been regarded as new, patent material which was outside the record to sustain contestant’s added charge of forgery to the original charges of lack of testamentary capacity and of undue influence; therein we deferred passing upon…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hughes's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  2. Simon WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1955
  3. Bradley v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  4. Tranowicz's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931

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