Azinger Will

Opinion by

Eunice Ross, J.,

Before the court en banc are exceptions filed by Carnegie Mellon University to the opinion dated May 1, 1981, and order wherein the Honorable J. Warren Watson dismissed except-ant’s appeal from probate of an instrument designated as a *326codicil to decedent’s will.

Decedent Elsie M. Azinger died September 12, 1980. Her probated will dated March 29, 1977, left inter alia ten per cent of her residuary estate to exceptant.

The probated codicil in controversy was written one week before her death and was in the form of a handwritten letter to her attorney, Arnold D. Wilner,…