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Throckmorton Vs. Holt

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 26, 1901

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  1. Waldron Vs. Waldron US Supreme Court · Mar 04, 1895
  2. U.S. 552 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Throckmorton v. Holt
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  3. U.S. 552 (1901) Throckmorton v. Holt
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  4. that such direction cures any error which may have been committed by its introduction. Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Roy
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  5. in that case, the general objection may avail on appeal or writ of error. This was stated by Mr. Justice Field in Hopt v. Utah
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  6. U. S. 430 . And see Waldron v. Waldron
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  7. a case, therefore, of the introduction of merely irrelevant evidence, such as was stated in Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Roy
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  8. supra, nor like the case of Hopt v. Utah
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  9. subsequent to the execution of the will, they would be also inadmissible when made prior to its execution. In Stevens v. Vancleve
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  10. made by the sane or insane, because they are in either case unsworn declarations. Thus, it is said in Shailer v. Bumstead
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  11. were mere hearsay, and could never be explained or contradicted by the person who uttered them. And so, in Gibson v. Gibson
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  12. declarations as to his affections, which could only be admitted on such an issue. And it was also said in Waterman v. Whitney
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  13. To the same effect is Boylan v. Meeker
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  14. worth, although it is admitted that it is a very dangerous kind of evidence. We are familiar with the case of Sugden v. Lord
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  15. remarks of the master of the rolls were adverted to in Page 180 U. S. 577 the subsequent case of Woodward v. Goulstone
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  16. states, the character and sufficiency of the evidence to establish a lost will are provided for by statute. Schultz v. Schultz
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  17. N.Y. 653. The decision in the Sugden case also overrules that of Quick v. Quick
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  18. declarations of the testator made after its execution, and it also runs counter to the opinion of Lord Campbell in Doe v. Palmer
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  19. character of the instrument propounded as a will. Although admitting the evidence, yet Sir John Nicholl, in Johnston v. Johnston
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  20. Per Tindal, Ch.J., in Exchequer Chamber, 1838, in Marston v. Fox
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  21. decision might have been the other way. An extreme case may be assumed, such as was put by Mr. Justice Grier in Turner v. Hand
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  22. he at the same time said it must be regarded with very great caution as a dangerous kind of evidence. Turner v. Hand
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  23. over the alleged will of Meeker was conducted in the courts of New Jersey and in the federal court, while Boylan v. Meeker
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  24. his direction, arises from the appearance of this will when first received by the register of wills. In Hitchings v. Wood
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  25. defaced and under such circumstances that the fact of revocation might be presumed. It was observed in Johnston v. Johnston
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  26. the presumption of revocation arising from the finding of the mutilated will among the effects of the deceased. Lawyer v. Smith
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  27. Patterson v. Hickey
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  28. Ga. 156. Another case, Burge v. Hamilton
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  29. the evidence went to prove that two sheets stitched together and found in an envelope were parts of the will. Gould v. Lakes
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  30. of these declarations any more than upon the issue of forgery. As is stated by James, Lord Justice, in Cheese v. Lovejoy
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  31. Class A. Boylan v. Meeker
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  32. Rusling v. Rusling
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  33. Hayes v. West
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  34. Kennedy v. Upshaw
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  35. Mooney v. Olsen
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  36. Thompson v. Updegraff
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  37. Couch v. Eastham
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  38. Dinges v. Branson
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  39. Gibson v. Gibson
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  40. Cawthorn v. Haynes
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  41. Walton v. Kendrick
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  42. Comstock v. Hadlyme
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  43. Shailer v. Bumstead
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  44. Lane v. Moore
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  45. Robinson v. Hutchinson
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  46. to mental capacity, the testatrix being greatly broken and enfeebled in mind and capacity and of advanced age, Jackson v. Kniffen
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  47. Jackson v. Betts
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  48. Waterman v. Whitney
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  49. Johnson v. Hicks
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  50. Marx v. McGlynn
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