Legal Opinion

Rhodes Will

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 4, 1960No. Appeals, Nos. 17 and 18PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

Decedent, aged 83 years and a resident of Westmoreland County, died on January 12, 1959 survived by a brother, Benjamin II. Rhodes, and a sister, Nora R. Kiner, the present appellants.

The validity of decedent’s will — allegedly executed on January 2, 1959 while decedent was in a hospital— is attacked in this proceeding. In this will decedent made four pecuniary bequests of $10,000 each, respectively, to his brother, Benjamin H. Rhodes, to his sister, Nora R. Kiner, to a friend, Vance E. Booher, Jr., and the Presbyterian Church of McVeytown, Pa.; all the…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Novicki v. O'MaraSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  2. Hughes's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  3. James' EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  4. Kelly's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  5. Asay v. HooverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1846

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Okowitz WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  2. Matter of Estate of ConiglioSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  3. Torhan WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1960
  4. Bottari Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County1982
  5. Chavar Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Northampton County1972

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