Estate of McGovran

Citations

• 185 Pa. 203
• 39 A. 816
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 693

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Issue devisavit vel non — Insanity—Delusions.</p> <p>An issue devisavit vel non will not be granted where it appears that the testatrix who had formerly entertained trustful and kind feelings for the contestant, suddenly conceived for her an unexplained dislike, which caused testatrix to discriminate in her will against contestant, but the evidence fails to show that this change of feeling was based upon the supposed existence of facts which never existed, and which no rational person in the absence of evidence would have believed to exist, or that there was such a condition of things surrounding the whole case which would not only be consistent with the theory of delusion, but from which the existence of the delusion might reasonably be inferred.</p>