Lipphard v. Humphrey
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
HeabiNG on au appeal by the caveators from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sitting as a court of probate, admitting a will to probate, after the trial of issues on a caveat.
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HeabiNG on au appeal by the caveators from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sitting as a court of probate, admitting a will to probate, after the trial of issues on a caveat. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a judgment admitting to probate the will of Loraine Lipphard, who died December 9, 1903. The will, executed April 27,1898, devised and bequeathed the entire estate of the testatrix to the Rev. Chastain C. Meador in trust (1) to pay all funeral expenses and debts; (2) for the use of her husband, Adolph Lipphard, during…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice ShepaRd
When or by whom the will of Loraine Lipphard was written does not appear in the evidence, but there is not a single circumstance of suspicion attending its execution. Though an aged and illiterate woman, she was of sound mind and body at the time. Bearing the instrument, she went alone to the office of a young lady whom she well knew. She said it was her will, and that she had come to have its execution attested by three witnesses, which number was then required to a will creating an estate in land. The two other witnesses sent for were acquaintances, one of them for forty years. She declared…
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- Taylor v. CreswellCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1876
- Vernon v. KirkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1858
- Doran v. MullenIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- Guthrie v. PriceSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1861
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