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IN RE ESTATE OF LAURIN

492 Pa. 477 (1981)

424 A.2d 1290

In re ESTATE of Frances Lucy LAURIN a/k/a Frances Lucy Olsen a/k/a Frances L. Tryall a/k/a Frances Tryall Olsen, Deceased. Appeal of Susan L. FLEMING, Individually, Richard E. Fleming, and Susan L. Fleming, Guardian of Lori M. Fleming.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Archie V. Diveglia, Harrisburg, for appellant.

Jack Palkovitz, McKeesport, for appellee.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION

KAUFFMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal by the grandchildren of Frances Lucy Laurin ("testatrix"), from a final decree of the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County dismissing their exceptions to the probate of a writing dated March 16, 1978.1

The specific issue before us is whether the court below correctly determined that a validly executed informal writing using only non-testamentary...

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