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WIDENER UNIVERS., INC. v. ESTATE OF BOETTNER

726 A.2d 1059 (1999)

In re WIDENER UNIVERSITY, INC., Appellee, v. ESTATE OF Ruth E. BOETTNER, Deceased and M. Donald Wright, Co-Executor and the Bryn Mawr Trust Company, Co-Executor, Appellees. Appeal of the Boettner Institute Of Financial Gerontology, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed February 26, 1999.

Reargument Denied April 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin A. Heckscher, West Conshohocken, for appellant.

Richard A. Sprague, Philadelphia, for Widener University, appellee.

Before CAVANAUGH, J., HESTER, J. and TAMILIA, J.

HESTER, Judge:

¶ 1 Boettner Institute of Financial Gerontology appeals from the final decree in which the orphans' court awarded Widener University, Inc., Appellee, one million dollars from the estate of Ruth E. Boettner, deceased. We reverse the decree.

¶ 2 On January 13, 1988, Ruth and Joseph Boettner executed identical, reciprocal wills. Their joint estate plan provided that upon the death of the first spouse to die, each of Joseph's nieces was...

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