Taylor v. Trich
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 134, Oct. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 83, on verdict for defendants. Issue devisavit vel non to determine validity of will of John Trich, deceased. Before Stowe, P. J. At the trial it appeared that testator, who was a resident of McKeesport, died April 26, 1893, at the age of seventy-five years.
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Appeal, No. 134, Oct. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 83, on verdict for defendants. Issue devisavit vel non to determine validity of will of John Trich, deceased. Before Stowe, P. J. At the trial it appeared that testator, who was a resident of McKeesport, died April 26, 1893, at the age of seventy-five years. On Feb. 7, 1882, he consulted his counsel as to drawing a will, and, after consultation, the will was executed by testator and witnessed by his counsel and Samuel Fields. After testator’s death the will was presented for probate…
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Mb. Justice Williams,
There is no subject that has given rise to more extended discussion in legal and medical circles than insanity. The tests by which its existence and extent are to be determined; the stage of development at which moral accountability ceases; the circumstances under which civil accountability ought also to cease, and contracts to lose their legal value because of the want of mental capacity on the part of him who enters into them to form an intelligent judgment or give an intelligent assent, have been and still are the subjects of earnest debate. The whole subject…
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