Legal Opinion

Wells Will

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County

Decided September 24, 1965Published

1Opinion of the Court

Rothenberger, Register of Wills,

*695This matter arises on a petition to the Register of Wills of Montgomery County to probate as the last will of May Wells, deceased, a holographic document dated January 9,1965. The register refused to probate the document without a hearing to take testimony concerning whether or not the document was properly executed.

The register questioned whether or not the document was properly executed, because (1) the “signature” of decedent and of two “subscribing witnesses” was cut from some other document and pasted on the document offered for probate with the notation,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Estate of KnoxSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
  2. Brennan's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  3. Miller WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
  4. Myers v. VanderbeltSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1877

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