Legal Opinion

In Re Estate of Pedrick

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 10, 1984PublishedCited by 112 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by allowance from a Superior Court panel’s per curiam order, 311 Pa.Super. 602, 458 A.2d 267. The panel affirmed an order of the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. Orphans’ Court entertained the appeal of George A. Butler, Jr. from a decree of Philadelphia’s Register of Wills, reversed the Register and directed him to admit to probate testator Joseph C. Pedrick’s September 27, 1979 will written by appellee George A. Butler, Jr. That will distributed the testator’s entire estate to appellee and his…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1945
  2. Kraynick v. HERTZSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
  3. Phillips' EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  4. Stauffer v. StaufferSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
  5. Gaudiosi v. MellonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1959

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3Cited by112 opinions

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  5. Estate of LakatoshSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995

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