Estate of Wiley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 418, Jan. T., 1897, by William W. Forman, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., affirming decision of Register of Wills. Appeal from register of wills, refusing to admit to probate an alleged nuncupative will. Sarah A. Wiley, aged seventy-two years, died, leaving one brother, William Wiley Forman, and nephews and nieces.
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Appeal, No. 418, Jan. T., 1897, by William W. Forman, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., affirming decision of Register of Wills. Appeal from register of wills, refusing to admit to probate an alleged nuncupative will. Sarah A. Wiley, aged seventy-two years, died, leaving one brother, William Wiley Forman, and nephews and nieces. She had been an invalid for a number of-years before her death, and had been confined to her bed by illness at various times during this period; her principal ailment having been that of rheumatism, which among other physical disabilities had affected her hands to such…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
The testamentary words of the decedent as committed to writing and offered for probate are: “ Everything is to go to Willie. Everything is Willie’s. I want everything to go to Willie.” Two of the three witnesses to whom the words were addressed testified to them at the hearing in substantially the same form. The other witness, Mrs. Forman, stated them with a context as *85follows, “Mary don’t you or the children worry about anything. I Avant Willie — brother Willie, she said — to have everything. It has been put off; I intended to fix it so there would be no…
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