DETTRA WILL


415 Pa. 197 (1964)

Dettra Will.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 31, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank F. Truscott, with him Otis W. Erisman, I. Irving Tubis, and Truscott, Kline, O'Neill & Howson, for appellants.

Paul Maloney, with him Holbrook M. Bunting, Jr., and Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz, for appellees.

Vincent X. Yakowicz, Deputy Attorney General, with him Herbert W. Salus, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, and Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, July 31, 1964:

On this appeal we are called upon to determine two principal questions: (1) whether the evidence produced in the court below was legally sufficient to support a finding that the decedent lacked testamentary capacity to make this will and/or a finding that undue influence was exerted upon decedent to procure this will so as to justify the conclusion that this will is invalid? (2...

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