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IN RE ESTATE OF JANNEY

498 Pa. 398 (1982)

446 A.2d 1265

In re ESTATE OF Nancy M. JANNEY, Deceased. Appeal of Carolyn CASE, Executrix.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 25, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley E. Stettz, Robert E. Simpson, Jr., Easton, for appellant.

Edmund G. Flynn, Stroudsburgh, for appellee.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT and HUTCHINSON, JJ.

OPINION

McDERMOTT, Justice.

We are called upon here to resolve a conflict of law that lays upon the probate of an estate. The conflict is between the law of this Commonwealth and that of our sister, the garden state of New Jersey. The controversy is directly stated: until 1978, the state of New Jersey denied an attesting witness to a will any benefit under that will. Pennsylvania did not. Nancy M. Janney, a Pennsylvania...

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