HEMINGWAY ESTATE


395 Pa. 651 (1959)

Hemingway Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 28, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him Hervey B. Smith, and Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General, for appellant.

David B. Skillman, with him J. Horace Churchman, Henry S. Drinker, J. Atlee Cryder, Donald A. Lewis, and Frank E. Kepner, for appellees.

Before BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN and BOK, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, May 28, 1959:

R.S. Hemingway, a distinguished member of the Columbia County Bar, died on April 27, 1955.

Just thirty-one days before, on March 26th, he executed a will, a trust agreement, and a codicil, all on the same day. He dated the will and trust agreement back to October 15, 1954, and the codicil to December 10, 1954. This was done, as he said himself, to obviate the thirty-day limitation...

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