O'Neill v. Bartlett

OPINION

By BLOSSER, J.

Emma Bartlett and others instituted this action in the Court of Common Pleas against Charles T. O’Neil and others to contest the validity of a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Mattie B. Kauf, deceased. The verdict of the jury and the judgment which followed were in favor of the plaintiffs and the defendants thereupon prosecuted error to this court.

During the oral presentation of the case counsel for the plaintiffs in error urged in the closing argument that there is prejudicial error in the general charge of the court to the jury wherein it is…