Baker v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, The defendantin error was the plaintiff below. The nature of the ease, and the points decided, sufficiently appear from the opinion of the Court, which, after argument by Dick, S. Edwards and Kittera, for the plaintiff in error, and Lewis, J. Edwards, and Tilghman, for the defendant in error, was delivered by
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.
This was a feigned issue, directed by the Register’s Court to the,Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, to try the validity of a writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of Azariah Lewis, deceased. The plaintiff and principal devisee examined the three subscribing witnesses to the will, two of whom deposed, that he was of sound disposing mind, &c. at the time the instrument of writing was executed; the other, that he was sane at the time it was signed. The defendant opposed the probate of the will, on two grounds ; first, imbecility of mind, caused by age and infirmity, and…
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