Rhoads' Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 360, Jan. T., 1912, by Clara V. Lance, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., March T., 1912, No. 33, in Estate of Anna Louisa Rhoads, deceased. Petition to set aside letters of administration and to admit to probate a reproduction of a lost will of decedent.
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Appeal, No. 360, Jan. T., 1912, by Clara V. Lance, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., March T., 1912, No. 33, in Estate of Anna Louisa Rhoads, deceased. Petition to set aside letters of administration and to admit to probate a reproduction of a lost will of decedent. The following opinion was filed by Bland, P. J.: The original petition of Clara V. Lance for the revocation of the letters of administration issued to John J. Kutz, and for the admission to probate of the alleged substantial copy of the will of Anna Louisa Rhoads, the decedent, executed, as alleged, on November 28, 1900, was filed…
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Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
The law applicable to this case has recently been discussed and determined in Michell v. Low, 213 Pa. 526. The learned judge of the Orphans’ Court has so clearly demonstrated the correctness of his conclusion in an exhaustive opinion dealing with the facts and the law that a lengthy discussion of the questions raised by the assignments of error is unnecessary.
It was incumbent on the appellant to establish the due execution of the will, its contents substantially as set forth in the alleged reproduction, and that it was unrevoked at the decedent’s death. The…
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