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How is it possible that a wiki page about a trial neglects to mention the outcome?

> The Circuit Court finally refused to admit the complainant's testimony, and dismissed the bill with costs. An appeal was taken, but withdrawn, on a settlement between the parties whereby the complainant received her expenses, costs, and counsel fees. The probate of the will of September I, 1863, therefore, remained undisturbed,

From https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refere...

Which references as the original source:

> The American Law Review (vol. 4, pages 629-54)



Not sure if this was added before or after your comments, but at the time I'm looking, the last scene sentence in the second to last paragraph of the intro is "The case was ultimately decided against Robinson after the court ruled that the clause invalidating future wills and Sylvia's signature to it were forgeries"


Looking at the edit history it seems that someone came in and gave the article a general cleaning.

I wonder if it's a viable strategy to post sub-par, but interesting pages to HN in order to attract high-quality edits...




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