Rouzer's Estate

Citations

• 267 Pa. 323
• 110 A. 176
• 1920 Pa. LEXIS 855

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Probate—Signature at end thereof — Statements of fact following signature — Elimination of statements — Act of April 8, 1888, P. L. ¡849.</p> <p>Where a testator signs his name at the right-hand corner of a piece of paper immediately under the end of a sentence as follows: “This is my will this third day of December 1914”; and to the left of his signature, and on a line with it, wrote: “I have a note of C. A. Roúzer for $4000.00,” and immediately below this he inserted in his own handwriting, “Receipt of $115.00 against Mrs. Rose Bonebréak,” the two expressions, referring to the note and the receipt respectively, formed no part of the will, which the statute requires to be signed at the end, but were statements of fact without testamentary character, and without application to the disposition which testator made of his estate. A decree eliminating such expressions from the will, as admitted to probate by the register, was proper.</p>