Legal Opinion

In Re Estate of Ziel

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 6, 1976No. 105PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

POMEROY, Justice.

This is a will contest. At issue is whether the documents, a will and two codicils thereto, 1 admitted to probate by the Register of Wills of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as the Last Will and Testament of Oscar T. Ziel, Sr., deceased, must be set aside because of decedent’s alleged testamentary incapacity at the times when each was executed and the undue influence allegedly exerted on the decedent by Lucy W. Ziel, his sister and co-executrix of his estate, with whom decedent had been living for nearly four years prior to his death on June 24, 1972.

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2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Phillips' EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  2. Masciantonio WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  3. Williams v. McCarrollSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1953
  4. In Re Estate of ClarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
  5. Ash WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944

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3Cited by48 opinions

  1. Estate of LakatoshSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
  2. In re Estate of SmalingSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
  3. Baker v. FAMILY CREDIT COUNSELING COPR.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2006
  4. Estate of ReichelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  5. Estate of AllenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980

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