Eddey's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1884, No. 150. This was an appeal by Clara E. Eddey and Frank L. Eddey from a decree of said court, refusing their petition, sur appeal from the Register of Wills, for an issue to determine the validity of the will and codicil of Joshua P. B. Eddey deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1884, No. 150. This was an appeal by Clara E. Eddey and Frank L. Eddey from a decree of said court, refusing their petition, sur appeal from the Register of Wills, for an issue to determine the validity of the will and codicil of Joshua P. B. Eddey deceased. On October 2d, 1882. soon after the death of Joshua P. B. Eddey, the Register of Wills admitted to probaBe, against the objections of the above named Clara E. and Frank L. Eddey, the following will and codicil, executed by the decedent:— I, Joshua P. B. Eddey, of the City…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This was an appeal from the refusal of the court below to grant an issue to determine the validity of the last will and testament of Joshua P. B. Eddery, deceased.
The questions presented were 1st, whether the testator was of sound mind at the time of the execution of the will; and 2d, whether said will and codicil were procured by undue influence, fraud, imposition or duress.
The latter branch of the inquiry maybe dismissed with the remark that we find nothing in the evidence to sustain it. Nor is there anything to bring the case within the ruling of Cuth*419bertson’s Appeal, 1 Out., 168, and…
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