VAN GILDER WILL


421 Pa. 520 (1966)

Van Gilder Will.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 24, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Ober Hess, with him Benjamin R. Neilson, and Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, for appellant.

Roland Fleer, with him Frank J. Strassner, Jr., and Waters, Fleer, Cooper & Gallagher, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, May 24, 1966:

This appeal raises the single question of whether three unsigned holographic writings are entitled to probate as part of the Will of Frederick C. Van Gilder, Deceased.

The question was certified to the Orphans' Court of Montgomery County by the Register of Wills pursuant to the Act of June 28, 1951, P.L. 638, § 207, 20 P.S. § 1840.207.1 The court concluded that the writings...

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