# In Re Estate of Tower

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · July 7, 1975 · 463 Pa. 93

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9733013

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re ESTATE of Charlemagne TOWER, Deceased. Appeal of Tripp TOWER and Annette Tower Ragsdale
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 7, 1975
- **Citations:** 463 Pa. 93; 343 A.2d 671; 1975 Pa. LEXIS 926
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Nix
- **Judges:** Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Nix, Manderino, Pomeroy
- **Cited by:** 25 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

NIX, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the result reached by the majority because I believe the testator, Charlemagne Tower, did express in his will a clear intent to exclude persons not within his bloodline. I do not accept the majority’s application of the doctrine of res judicata to the instant facts.

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