Legal Opinion

Fink's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 30, 1933No. Appeal, 114PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lehigh County refusing to award an issue d. v. n. to determine the validity of the will of Cora Agnes Fink, deceased. Contestant’s petition alleged that at the time of making her will testatrix was not a person of sound mind and that the instrument “was procured by undue influence, fraud, imposition, duress and constraint practiced upon testatrix by Queen Levan,” a stranger to her blood and chief beneficiary under the terms of the will. The allegation of lack of testamentary capacity has been abandoned…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Phillips' EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  2. Tetlow's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  3. Mark's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
  4. White's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
  5. Eble v. Fidelity Title & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1913

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Pusey's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  2. Williams v. McCarrollSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1953
  3. Delaurentiis's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  4. Dible's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1934
  5. Paul WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962

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