HARTLEY ESTATE

No. 3113 of 1957.

12 Pa. D. & C. 2d 755 (1958)

Hartley Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

February 21, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brenner & Brenner, for exceptants.

James H. McHale and Richard J. Raab, contra.

Before Klein, P. J., Bolger, Lefever, Saylor and Shoyer, JJ.


SHOYER, J., February 21, 1958.

Three sisters of Mary D. Hartley, who would be her only heirs under our intestate laws, except to the ruling of the learned auditing judge who awarded the residue of her estate to Herbert R. Whitehead, whom she also named as her executor. Like most holographic wills drawn by a lay person, the present instrument is not free from difficulty in construction. In testatrix's own hand, on a single sheet of paper, her will is as follows:

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