Legal Opinion

Bobbitt's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Erie County

Decided March 27, 1937No. 232Published

1Opinion of the Court

Waite, P. J.,

This matter is before the court on appeal from the register and a citation awarded upon a petition of the contestants to have the matter certified in the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County for the trial of the following questions of fact: (1) Whether or not at the time of the execution of said writing the decedent was a person of sound mind; (2) whether or not the said writing was procured by undue influence, duress, constraint, and forgery practiced upon the decedent by Mattie Bobbitt and others; (3) whether or not the said writing is the last will and testament of the said…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Novicki v. O'MaraSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  2. Hughes's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  3. Kelly's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  4. Estate of Mary Jane WilsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  5. Francis's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1930

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