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PLUBLICKER ESTATE

385 Pa. 403 (1956)

Publicker Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 25, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. McBride, with him Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Green, for appellants.

C. Brewster Rhoads, with him Samuel S. Logan, Jr., Federico F. Mauck, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads and Wright, Mauck, Hawes & Spencer, for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE CHIDSEY, June 25, 1956:

The sole question involved in this appeal from a decree of the Orphans' Court of Montgomery County is whether the Register of Wills of that county had probate jurisdiction of the will and codicils of Rose Publicker.

The testatrix, widow of Harry Publicker, owner of the highly successful Publicker Industries in Philadelphia, died on May 19, 1955. What was purported to be her last will and testament, dated December...

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