Lawson v. Morrison
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from a sentence of the Register of Wills &c. and two justices of the Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland. The case had been argued in July 1789, (before the present organization of the Judiciary Department under the existing Constitution) and afterwards in October 1792, by Bradford and Ingersoll, for the appellant, and by Lewis for the appellees.
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APPEAL from a sentence of the Register of Wills &c. and two justices of the Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland. The case had been argued in July 1789, (before the present organization of the Judiciary Department under the existing Constitution) and afterwards in October 1792, by Bradford and Ingersoll, for the appellant, and by Lewis for the appellees. The facts, on which the appeal arose, were as follow :—A written paper, purporting to be the Will of Janet Morrison, dated the 19th of October 1775, was exhibited for probate to the Register of Wills, &c. on the 19th of October 1786. A…
1Opinion of the Court
Chew, President,
delivered his opinion, in general terms, in affirmance of the sentence of the Register’s Court.
M'Kean, Chief Justice.
There has been no case or precedent cited, which comes up to this, in all its parts; but there are several cases, which depended upon the same principle.
•Before the ftatute of 29 Car. 1 ch. 3. Wills in England might be revoked by any exprefa words, without writing’; and fo it was in Pennjylvania, until altered by poiidve law; but in England, fince that ftatute,-' and in Pennjylvania, fines the act of Aflbmbly, of the üth of Anne, “concerning the probates of…
2Cited by12 opinions
- Pickens v. DavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Colvin v. WarfordCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1863
- Jones v. MurphySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
- Havard v. DavisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1810
- Flintham v. BradfordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1848
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