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· 5/20/1907

Emernecker's Estate

Citations

  • 218 Pa. 369
  • 67 A. 701
  • 1907 Pa. LEXIS 527

Syllabus

<p>Will — Destruction of will — Cutting off children.</p> <p>Where a woman executes a will in favor of a granddaughter, but subsequently destroys the paper as the result of groundless apprehension on her part that it would not be effectual unless it contained some provision in favor of her children, and at the same time declares her intention to make a similar will with a gift to her children of $1.00 each, but she died before such a will is made, a copy of the will destroyed cannot be probated.</p>

Judges: Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter, Stewart

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