WALTER ESTATE


437 Pa. 544 (1970)

Walter Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 22, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Walter Braham, with him Chris J. Mitsos, and Braham and Mitsos, for appellant.

Kenneth M. McLure, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, April 22, 1970:

Rolla Walter (testator), a Lawrence County resident, on July 20, 1962, executed his last will; on September 30, 1964, he executed and delivered to a coal company a written instrument purporting to be a "coal lease;" he died on May 6, 1966. The issue on this appeal is: what was the effect, if any, of the execution and delivery of the "coal lease" on a specific devise contained in testator's will of testator's "farm," overlying...

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