Rowson's Estate

Citations

• 175 Pa. 150
• 34 A. 433
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1226

Syllabus

<p>Will — Testamentary capacity.</p> <p>A decree refusing an issue devisavit vel non will be sustained where the evidence of the attending physician of the testator, the attorney who prepared the will and was present at its execution, and the executor, a son of the testator, is in effect that the testator at the time he signed the will was rational and understood what he was doing, while the contestants’ testimony that the testator was unconscious on the day the alleged will was signed is contradicted by other parts of their own testimony, by the fact that some of them witnessed the will, and by the fact that the will was signed by the testator.</p>