Legal Opinion

May Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Lycoming County

Decided March 6, 1962No. 49Published

1Opinion of the Court

Williams, P. J.,

After the death of Elizabeth Jane May, there was found among her effects an envelope with the word “will” marked on the outside.

In this envelope were seven sheets of paper, all in decedent’s own handwriting.

Four of these sheets are on unlined paper and there appears to be no objection as to these four sheets and the fact that they make a valid will. These four sheets are dated December 15, 1948, and decedent signed her name at the end of the fourth sheet.

This dispute comes about because of the three other sheets of paper, none of which were dated or signed.

The first extra…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Appeal of MagoohanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1887

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