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SOMMERVILLE ESTATE

No. 3243 of 1959.

23 Pa. D. & C. 2d 686 (1961)

Sommerville Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

May 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Hayward Reid, for proponent.

Bernard L. Frankel and Charles M. Solomon, for contestant.

Barbara Ann Duffy, for executor.

Hugh P. Connolly, for Commonwealth.

Before Klein, P. J., Bolger, Lefever, Saylor, Shoyer and Burke, JJ.

LEFEVER, J., May 12, 1961.

The voluminous record in this case fully supports the verdict of the jury that testatrix was suffering from monomania, or an insane delusional fixation against her only living child, Margaret S. Russell, and, therefore, was not of sound and disposing mind at the time she executed her alleged will.1 The learned trial judge approved the verdict. A careful and...

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