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BUZBY ESTATE

386 Pa. 1 (1956)

Buzby Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 25, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Maloney, with him Francis E. Shields, Joseph S. Conwell, Jr., Ernest Scott and Pepper, Bodine, Frick, Scheetz & Hamilton, for appellant.

Frank O. Schilpp, with him J. Channing Ellery and Rambo & Mair, for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, June 25, 1956:

This appeal is concerned with the interpretation of the holographic will and codicil of a layman.

The testator, C. Ernest Buzby, executed his self-drawn will on November 4, 1925. After bequeathing nine legacies among his children, their spouses and other relatives by name, he provided as follows:

"The balance of my estate I bequeath equally to my children Percival W. Buzby Charles E. Buzby Jr. and...

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