MELSON ESTATE

No. 1462 of 1935.

27 Pa. D. & C. 2d 66 (1962)

Melson Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

March 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Grubb, Jr., and Grubb, Guest & Littleton, for accountant.

Charles F. Nahill, amicus curiae.

Ralph M. Barley, for substituted trustee.

F. Lyman Windolph, John B. Rengier and Harry J. Gerber, for claimants.

Lois G. Forer, for Commonwealth.


LEFEVER, J., March 12, 1962.

Mary C. Melson died July 11, 1934, leaving a will dated May 14, 1909, and codicils thereto dated June 15, 1912, March 15, 1929, October 23, 1930 and November 3, 1932, respectively, which were duly probated in the Office of the Register of Wills of Philadelphia County on August 7, 1934. . . .

In the tenth and eleventh paragraphs of testatrix' will, "after the death or remarriage" of her husband, (and he predeceased her), she left...

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