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THOMPSON WILL

416 Pa. 249 (1965)

THOMPSON WILL.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 5, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.P. Dunn, with him John M. Wolford, and Dunn & Wolford, for appellant.

Barney Bernard, with him Evans, Johnson, Scarpitti & Bernard, for appellee.

John A. Blackmore, and Blackmore & Grieshober, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, January 5, 1965:

Where a testator in a concededly valid will gives to a named executor his residuary estate for "distribution to and amongst such local charities as he [the executor] shall determine in his sole discretion", does the executor in his representative capacity, under the Register of Wills Act of 1951,1 have the right to appeal from the probate of a codicil...

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