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HITCHCOCK ESTATE

385 Pa. 569 (1956)

Hitchcock Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 25, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Buchanan, with him Danald L. McCaskey, Cloyd R. Mellott and Smith, Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald & Eckert, for appellant.

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him Leo J. Kelly, Special Deputy Attorney General, and Herbert B. Cohen, Attorney General, for appellee.

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

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

The question in this case arises out of a joint will of a husband and wife which they executed as a part of and in pursuance of their written agreement which combined their separate estates as a tenancy in common and provided for the ultimate disposition of the combined estates by their joint will upon the death of the survivor. The issue involved is whether claims of the husband's testamentary beneficiaries, which were...

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