Miller v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Common Pleas of Lebanon county. This was an issue of devisavit vel non directed from the register’s court to try the validity of an instrument of writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of Michael Miller, deceased.
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In Error. ERROR to the Common Pleas of Lebanon county. This was an issue of devisavit vel non directed from the register’s court to try the validity of an instrument of writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of Michael Miller, deceased. On the trial in the Court below, the defendants offered to prove, that subsequent to the execution the will, John Miller, one of the devisees in the said will, and one of the plaintiffs below, with whom the testator lived, had by various discourses, intimated, that he had procured the said will to be made, and that the same was read to him, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
The trial in this case was had, on an issue from the register’s court of Lebanon county, to decide on the validity of a certain writing, exhibited as the last will and testaiiaent of Michael Miller, deceased. The defendants offered evidence to prove, that John Miller, one of the plaintiffs in the issue, and a devisee in the writing set up as a will, had, after the execution of the said writing, “ by various dis- “ courses, intimated, that he had procured the said will to be “ made, and that the same was read to him, and that he had “ given the reasons why his brothers and…
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