HIGBEE WILL


365 Pa. 381 (1950)

Higbee Will.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 26, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne X. Alpern, with her Louis Caplan, for appellants.

Sherman T. Rock and Walter M. Newman, with them Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay and Walker & Newman, for appellee.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES and BELL, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, September 26, 1950:

Mary Higbee died February 12, 1945, at the age of 89. On April 9, 1936 she executed her will which, after minor bequests to relatives, left the bulk of her estate of $85,000. to two agnostic corporations. Miss Higbee also left four codicils made respectively on July 16, 1936, November 19, 1938, May 2, 1942, and March 25, 1944. None of these codicils made any material changes in her will.

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