Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1892

Fow's Estate

Fow's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided January 25, 1892 · Cúeiam, Green, Heydrick, McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Sterrett
147 Pa. 264; 23 A. 447; 1892 Pa. LEXIS 828

Fow's Estate

Opinion of the Court

Pee Cúeiam,

We quite agree, with the learned judge of the orphans’ court that the register was right in refusing the issue prayed for, and that, from the evidence presented by the caveators alone, it sufficiently appears that a verdict against the validity of the will and codicils should not be permitted to stand. The issues, that the testator had not sufficient testamentary capacity, and that his will was the result of undue influence, are not sustain*267ed by the evidence. There was, at most, but a scintilla, not sufficient to sustain a verdict against the will. A discussion of some 300 pages of testimony would be as uninteresting as useless.

The decree is affirmed, and the appeal dismissed at the costs of the appellants.

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