Lillibridge's Estate

Citations

• 221 Pa. 5
• 69 A. 1121
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 420

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Probate—Witnesses—Execution.</p> <p>Where an instrument propounded as a will speaks for itself, and by its terms is a testamentary disposition of property, if legal proofs be furnished of its execution, the law will presume that the maker signed it with full understanding, and that he intended it to be his will. It is not necessary that the attesting witnesses should know at the time of the attestation that the instrument is a will; nor is it necessary that the testator himself should have in terms requested them to sign and witness it; nor is it necessary that the paper should have been read to the testator in their presence.</p>