Hight v. Wilson

1 U.S. 94

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: September 15, 1784
• Status: Published

Opinion

The Chief Justice,

in his charge to the jury, informed them, 1st. That it was not necessary that a will, devising real estate in this commonwealth, should be sealed. 2d. Nor that all the subscribing witnesses should prove the execution. 3d. Nor that the proof of the will should be made by those who subscribed as witnesses.¹ 4th. Nor that the will should be subscribed by the witnesses,

(a)

See Lewis v. Maris, post, 278. See also Hock v. Hock, 6 S. & R. 47; Eyster v. Young, 3 Yeates 511; Harrison v. Rowan, 3 W. C. C. 580; Rosseter v. Simmons, 6 S. & R. 452; Walmsley v. Read, 1 Yeates 87; Arndt v. Arndt, 1 S. & R. 256.

1 See Irvin v. Deschampa, 11 W. N. C. 385.