Lawman's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 78, Oct. T., 1921, by Mary E. Lawman, claimant as legatee, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1919, No. 707, dismissing appeal from Register of Wills, in estate of Lenore Lawman, deceased. Appeal from decision of register of wills refusing to admit to probate an alleged codicil. Before Miller, P. J., and Trimble, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Petition dismissed. Mary E. Lawman, claimant as legatee, appealed.
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Appeal, No. 78, Oct. T., 1921, by Mary E. Lawman, claimant as legatee, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1919, No. 707, dismissing appeal from Register of Wills, in estate of Lenore Lawman, deceased. Appeal from decision of register of wills refusing to admit to probate an alleged codicil. Before Miller, P. J., and Trimble, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Petition dismissed. Mary E. Lawman, claimant as legatee, appealed. Error assigned, among others, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaffer,
Appellant, Mary E. Lawman, is a daughter of Lenore Lawman, deceased; her endeavor in this proceeding is to have probated an additional codicil to her mother’s will, which codicil she claims has been lost or destroyed, by some one other than the decedent.
Impressed by appellant’s faith in her cause, we have most carefully read and fully considered the entire record, but find ourselves unable, under the law as it is written and has been construed, to bring about the result she seeks.
The testamentary papers probated as the final disposition of her property by Lenore…
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