Legal Opinion

Brown Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 13, 1943No. Appeals, 101-104PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

This is an appeal from the decree of an orphans’ court, reversing the refusal of the register of wills to probate a testamentary paper on the ground that it was not signed at the end thereof as required by Section 2 of the Wills Act of June 7,1917, P. L. 403, 20 PS 191.

All of the facts are recited in our previous opinion in this case reported in 343 Pa. 230. We there unanimously decided that this writing was testamentary in character. But we also stated (page 238) : “As testamentary dispositions, the endorsements are coneededly ineffectual, because not…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Churchill's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
  2. Brown's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  3. Wenz's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  4. Heise v. HeiseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1858
  5. Stinson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Est. of Robert H. Agnew v. Ross, D.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2017
  2. Covington EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
  3. Coyne WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
  4. Baldwin WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  5. Griffith WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948

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