Robinson v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 16, Jan. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1901, No. 210, on verdict for defendants, in case of John B. Robinson and A. Welling Wyckoff, Executors of Letitia Robinson, Deceased, v. Anna R. Robinson and Gerald O'H. Robinson and William J. McClure, Guardian of Mary Parker Robinson. Issue devisavit vel non.
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Appeal, No. 16, Jan. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1901, No. 210, on verdict for defendants, in case of John B. Robinson and A. Welling Wyckoff, Executors of Letitia Robinson, Deceased, v. Anna R. Robinson and Gerald O'H. Robinson and William J. McClure, Guardian of Mary Parker Robinson. Issue devisavit vel non. Before Johnson, P. J. The issues framed were as follows; 1. Whether the signature to said paper writing is -the signature of the said Letitia Robinson. 2. Whether the said paper writing was executed by the said Letitia Robinson. 3. Whether the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Letitia Robinson died November 23,1900, in her eighty-fourth year. She had been confined to her bed by a severe illness for about three weeks before her death; on the 13th of the same month, ten days before her death, she made her will, the writing in dispute. She was the widow of William O. Robinson, a lawyer of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, who had died many years before, leaving her with five sons, William, James, Alexander, John and Eccles, to survive. Up to the date of the will, all had died except John B., this plaintiff. Of the other sons, Eccles alone left…
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