Butler's Estate

Citations

• 223 Pa. 252
• 72 A. 508
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 517

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Last extremity — Signature—Failure to ask another to sign— Act of April 8, 1833, P. L. 249.</p> <p>Where a paper prepared as a will is read to a person in his last illness, who expresses his approval of it, but is prevented from signing it by reason of his exhausted condition brought on by his wife’s hysterical conduct, although he is still capable of asking another to sign for him, but fails to do so, the paper cannot be admitted to probate as a will.</p>