Legal Opinion

Sommerville Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided May 12, 1961No. 3243 of 1959Published

1Opinion of the Court

Lefever, J.,

The voluminous record in this case fully supports the verdict of the jury that testatrix was suffering from monomania, or an insane delusional fixation against her only living child, Margaret S. Russell, and, therefore, was not of sound and disposing mind at the time she executed her alleged *688will.1 The learned trial judge approved the verdict. A careful and thorough review of this record brings us unerringly to the same result.

The record is replete with evidence that testatrix rejected her only child, Margaret, from birth. As explained by the eminent psychiatrists who testified in…

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2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Masciantonio WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  2. Estate of McGovranSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
  3. Doster's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  4. Edmunds EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1953
  5. Alexander's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914

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