PENDERGEST ESTATE

No. 526 of 1958.

19 Pa. D. & C. 2d 755 (1959)

Pendergest Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

December 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan R. Hermes, for proponent.

Herman H. Deal, for appellant.

Henry W. Maxmin and Marvyn Gould, for legatees.


SHOYER, J., December 18, 1959.

This appeal from probate raises the issue as to whether decedent effectively revoked the "codicil" to her will.

Daisy Pendergest, a widow, and without issue, died July 21, 1957, at age 79. She left a will dated May 6, 1952, which had been prepared by her lawyer, James N. Lafferty, Esq., a highly respected member of the bar, whom she named executor, and to whom letters testamentary thereon were issued on July 24, 1957, by the...

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