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BAUM ESTATE

418 Pa. 404 (1965)

Baum Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Gafford, Deputy Attorney General, with him Eugene J. Brew, Jr., Counsel, and Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant.

William J. Kelly, with him Enoch C. Filer, Walter A. Dart, Jr. and Lyman C. Shreve, for appellees.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, June 30, 1965:

This appeal involves the validity of charitable bequests contained in a will executed less than 30 days before death. Testatrix died on May 2, 1958, without heirs or next of kin, nine days after executing her last will dated April 23, 1958. In that will, as in her immediately preceding will of September 27, 1955, she bequeathed her residuary estate in equal shares to three designated charities. Both wills were drawn by...

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