Legal Opinion
March Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 30, 1967No. Appeal, No. 12PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell,
This case arose in the Orphans’ Court of York County sur a petition to vacate a widow’s election to take against her (divorced?) husband’s will. The sole issue on appeal is whether the Court below was correct in holding that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Federal Constitution, Art. IV, §1, did not require it to honor this Nevada divorce decree. That decree granted to March in June 1962, purported to dissolve the marriage upon which the election of the present appellee is based.
March was born and lived most of his life in York County, Pennsylvania,…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Williams v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Williams v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Haddock v. HaddockSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Bell v. BellSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Esenwein v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. EsenweinSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Stambaugh v. StambaughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Commonwealth ex rel. Bortin v. BortinSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
- Rapoport v. RapoportDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1967
- Commonwealth ex rel. Gallagher v. Gallagher, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Beaver County1972
- Stambaugh v. StambaughSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
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