Kerr's Estate

Citations

• 255 Pa. 399
• 100 A. 127
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 466

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Fraud—Undue influence — Republication—Issue devisavit vel non — Refusal.</p> <p>An issue devisavit vel non prayed for on the ground of alleged lack of testamentary capacity in testatrix and the exercise of fraud and undue influence by the person named as executor in the 'will was properly refused, where there was no evidence of any undue influence exercised by the person named as executor or by anyone else; and it appeared that such person subsequently died and testatrix added a codicil to her will, whereby she republished the entire will, and that although testatrix had bodily infirmities and used morphia, she had full intelligence and exact knowledge of her property and her affairs and the objects of her bounty.</p>