Tabler v. Tabler

This appeal is from an order of the Orphans’ Court refusing to grant a second set of issues involving the validity of a will, and it presents a singular and novel question.

A paper-writing, purporting to he the last will of Michael Leather, was propounded for prohate. The name of the alleged testator was signed by Warner Welsh, the scrivener who prepared the instrument. It is also duly attested by three witnesses, but as all the estate of the deceased consisted of personal property, this attestation was, as the law then stood, unnecessary. It contains five clauses. In each of the three first…