Dovci Will
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Hirt, J.,
In this will contest the lower court refused to grant an issue devisavit vel non. The question here is whether there is a substantial dispute as to decedent’s testamentary capacity on June 2, 1950. In her will executed on that date she gave her home in Mount Carmel to her son Michael Dovci. She died on August 28, 1951, at age 73. The above real estate comprised the whole of her estate and the effect of the devise was to disinherit her two daughters, the appellants herein.
The granting of an issue devisavit vel non is not a matter of right; there must be a substantial dispute…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Lare WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
- Sturgeon WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
- WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
- Lewis WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1950
- Franz WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
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