Sheaffer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 377, Jan. T., 1912, by Amanda S. Leaman and Mary J. Landis, from decree of O. C. Chester Co., dismissing appeal from register of wills in estate of John Sheaffer, deceased. Appeal from action of register of wills in probating a will.
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Appeal, No. 377, Jan. T., 1912, by Amanda S. Leaman and Mary J. Landis, from decree of O. C. Chester Co., dismissing appeal from register of wills in estate of John Sheaffer, deceased. Appeal from action of register of wills in probating a will. Butler, J., filed the following opinion: It is practically conceded and the evidence demonstrates, that on the thirteenth day of April, 1908, the deceased regularly and legally executed a testamentary paper in the presence of two competent subscribing witnesses ; that he then made a will valid and sound in every detail, and the opposition to its…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
That John Sheaffer, possessing full testamentary-capacity, executed his will on April 13, 1908, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, is an indisputable fact; that the paper admitted to probate was that will, with the first page torn off, is another indisputable fact; and that he intended that this paper, in that shape, should be regarded as his will was clearly established as a fact by the unimpeached testimony of witnesses whose competency is not questioned. In February, 1910, the deceased, who had been ill for a long time, was taken from his home near…
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