Rowan's Estate

Citations

• 234 Pa. 584
• 83 A. 429
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 690

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Issue devisavit vel non — Refusal of issue — Signature—■ Alterations — Evidence.</p> <p>An issue devisavit vel non is properly refused where five witnesses positively identify the signature to the will as that of the testatrix, and testify that the entire will is in her handwriting, including interlineations and additions, and only one testifies that she thought the handwriting did not look like that of testatrix.</p> <p>The will is not avoided because the testatrix in her own handwriting added interlineations to identify two of the devisees by their married names, and because she added the abbreviations “Jr” to the name of the executor.</p>