Adams's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 127, Jan. T., 1907, by Mary A. Taylor, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Ocfc. T., 1905, No. 447, refusing an issue devisavit vel non in Estate of Mary E. Adams, deceased. Appeal from register of wills' refusing to admit a will to probate. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was decree reversing the action of the register of wills.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
The appellant is the only daughter and next of kin of the testatrix, the admission of whose will to probate is being contested. She filed a caveat before the register, objecting to the admission of the will to probate on the grounds of undue influence, and asked for an issue devisavit vel non in order to have the question determined in the court of common pleas. The register aftér hearing awarded the issue, and the proponents appealed to the orphans’ court where the case was heard upon the evidence submitted before the register of wills. The trial judge decided in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Linton's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1883
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