Lappe's Estate

Citations

• 215 Pa. 424
• 64 A. 607
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 815

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Probate—Issue—Bes adjudicóla.</p> <p>Where a jury certifies that a decedent died possessed of a last will and testament, and that the last will and testament was mislaid or destroyed after his death, and there is nothing in the proceeding to indicate that the jury had in mind any particular will although there were apparently two wills in existence at the time, the proceeding is not res adjudicata of an issue to determine whether one of the wills, particularly specified and described, had not been destroyed animo revocandi by the testator himself.</p>