LEWIS ESTATE


407 Pa. 518 (1962)

Lewis Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Roy Lilley, for appellant.

J. Boyd Landis, with him William J. Davis, and Bennett & Davis, and Landis and McIntosh, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O'BRIEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, May 21, 1962:

The vital question raised by this appeal is the meaning of the word "money" as used in the testatrix's holographic will.

Testatrix, Edith A. Lewis, died on June 11, 1954, leaving a personal estate of $10,658, of which $251.80 was in cash, $270.25 in household goods, and $10,135.95 in stocks and bonds. Her debts and expenses of administration (which were not itemized or broken down) amounted to over $5,000. In...

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