Rudy v. Ulrich
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lebanon county: Of May Term 1871, No. 51. This was an issue devisavit vel non, directed by the Court of Common Pleas under a precept from the register, to try whether a certain paper writing was the will of John Yerkes, deceased.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lebanon county: Of May Term 1871, No. 51. This was an issue devisavit vel non, directed by the Court of Common Pleas under a precept from the register, to try whether a certain paper writing was the will of John Yerkes, deceased. The parties to the issue were Jacob Rudy, guardian of David Yerkes (an illegitimate son of the testator), plaintiff, and Elizabeth Ulrich and Isaac Ulrich, her husband, and Polly Bordner and Isaac Bordner, her husband, the defendants. Elizabeth Ulrich and Polly Bordner were daughters of the testator. The will had been lost after…
1Opinion of the Court
*181The opinion of the court was delivered, May 25th 1871, by
Sharswood, J.
This was an issue of devisavit vel non in the Court of Common Pleas on the precept of the register, before whom the copy of a paper-writing, alleged to have been lost, was propounded for probate as the will of John Yerkes, deceased. Ten errors have been assigned. We think that none of them have been sustained except the sixth and seventh. It will be unnecessary to consider the remaining assignments in detail. They present no questions which have not already been decided in McTaggart v. Thompson, 2 Harris 154, and Dean v.…
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