OKOWITZ WILL


403 Pa. 82 (1961)

Okowitz Will.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 23, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Rutherford, with him Kathleen A. McDonnell, and Louis B. Nielsen, for appellants.

Leigh B. Maxwell, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BENJAMIN R. JONES, March 23, 1961:

On July 23, 1952, Anthony Okowitz, a Wayne County resident, died in Honesdale, Pa. Surviving him as next-of-kin were four sisters, two brothers and the son of a deceased brother.1 After Okowitz's death, a paper which purported to be his last will was found in a dresser drawer in his bedroom. The validity of this paper, directed to be probated as Okowitz's last will, is the subject...

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