LESER ESTATE


20 Pa. D. & C. 2d 671 (1960)

Leser Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

May 20, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto W. Woltersdorf and Arno P. Mowitz, of Mowitz & Kohlas, for exceptants.

Donald E. Hogeland, contra.

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


SAYLOR, J., May 20, 1960.

The question to be decided is whether decedent, an American citizen, was domiciled in Philadelphia or in Germany when he died there on October 20, 1926. By a codicil to his will he bequeathed his residuary estate to a Philadelphia charity and to several charities in Germany. The codicil was executed in Berlin on October 6, 1926. Under German law the will and the charitable bequests are valid. Under Pennsylvania law the latter was void, because...

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