LIPPHARD v. HUMPHREY

No. 188.

209 U.S. 264 (1908)

LIPPHARD v. HUMPHREY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 6, 1908.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Chapin Brown, with whom Mr. Charles H. Bauman and Mr. J.P. Earnest were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error and appellants.

Mr. B.F. Leighton and Mr. C. Clinton James for defendants in error and appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The contention of appellant is that as testatrix could not read, and as the will was not read to her at the time of its execution, it was therefore to be presumed that she did not know the contents of the will when she executed it, or that the jury ought not to have been allowed to presume from the evidence produced before...

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