GRIER ESTATE


403 Pa. 517 (1961)

Grier Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 2, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Maloney, with him Philip A. Bregy, Eric A. McCouch, Ralph C. Busser, Jr., Joseph N. DuBarry, IV, William C. Ferguson, Jr., H. Clayton Louderback, James A. Matthews, Jr., Samuel W. Morris, A.J. Drexel Paul, Jr., Frank O. Schilpp, William P. Thorn, Seth W. Watson, Jr., Thomas S. Weary, Albert C. Weymann, Jr., and Helen M. Wilcox, for appellants.

B.I. deYoung, for appellant.

John Harper and William H.S. Wells, with them John R. Suria, and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, May 2, 1961:

The present appeals question the interpretation placed by the court below upon the will of Jay R. Grier who died resident in Philadelphia on June 13, 1958, at the age of 87. Mr. Grier had never married and left to survive him as his heirs at law and next of kin three cousins, two on his maternal side and one paternal. For 67 years he had been a member of the bar of Philadelphia County and, in the practice of his profession...

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