MOORE WILL


443 Pa. 477 (1971)

Moore Will.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Hancher, with him Barletta & Hancher, for appellants.

Phillip E. Morris, with him Thomas F. Nelson, David A. Brownlee, and Morris and McKim, and Kirpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchison, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, June 1, 1971:

The question in this appeal is whether a writing executed by decedent is a codicil to an existing will and should have been admitted to probate, or merely a non-testamentary letter, or a draft of a letter from the decedent to her attorney.

Decedent, Edith B. Moore, died testate on December 24, 1965, in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Her will dated July 13, 1959, was duly probated. A document dated May 3, 1964,...

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