OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, April 22, 1970:
This appeal raises the question of whether the hereinafter-quoted holographic writing is a will.
Maud T. Richards died on August 9, 1967. Two days later Miriam Becker, the decedent's niece, petitioned the Register of Wills for letters of administration c.t.a. and offered for probate an undated document which purported to be decedent's will. It was written on the back of an envelope, and read as follows:
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