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BRAMAN ESTATE

435 Pa. 573 (1969)

Braman Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 9, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Caldwell, with him Arthur C. Dale, and Caldwell, Fox & Stoner, and William S. Keown, of the New Jersey Bar, for appellant.

Eugene W. Lederer, with him Gill, Lederer & Sharp, for appellee.

William W. Litke, with him Litke, Gettig, Flood & Geiser, for appellees.

Edward L. Willard, for executor, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, May 9, 1969:

This appeal presents a narrow, although important, problem of will construction.

Ruth G. Braman [decedent], a Centre County resident, died testate on March 13, 1963, survived by a spinster sister, Mary Goddard, who subsequently died February 25, 1964. Decedent's will, executed February 23, 1961, gave a life interest in her entire residuary estate to her sister, Mary Goddard, and directed that, upon Mary Goddard's...

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