McAndrew's Estate

Citations

• 206 Pa. 366
• 55 A. 1040
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 721

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Probate—Register of wills — Revocation.</p> <p>After the register of wills has admitted a will to probate, he has no power to entertain a petition for the revocation of the probate.</p> <p>Will — Probate—Evidence—Identity of testatrix.</p> <p>A paper signed with a mark and dated three years prior to the death of testatrix will not be admitted to probate where the evidence showed that the paper was prepared by a justice of the peace and executed before him by a woman whom he did not know; that one of the witnesses did not know the woman; that the other who apparently did know her was dead when the paper was offered for probate; that another woman present at the time of the execution, and to whom the paper was given, was also dead; that the paper was discovered in the effects of this woman three years afterwards; that the testatrix although attending the latter’s funeral had never made any request or search for the paper; and that the paper offered made as the principal beneficiary of the estate, a person stranger in blood to testatrix, and with whom she had little to do.</p>