SKELTON ESTATE

No. 487 of 1959.

20 Pa. D. & C. 2d 491 (1960)

Skelton Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

April 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. P. Abramson, for preliminary objections.

John J. Foff, contra.

Before Klein, P. J., Bolger, Lefever, Saylor and Shoyer, JJ.


KLEIN, P. J., April 29, 1960.

Ethel D. Skelton, testatrix, died November 19, 1955. Litigation which was instituted to challenge the validity of a codicil to her will, admitted to probate by the register of wills, has not yet been concluded.

On March 4, 1960, a petition was filed by Mr. Abrahamson, counsel for Marian E. Dorwart, upon which a citation was issued to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed for failure to prosecute it with diligence....

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