Glass' Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Maxey,

The question here is whether or not a certain writing executed by a decedent and found after her death in her safe deposit box was testamentary in character.

Sara 0. Glass died on April 12, 1935. Ten days later there was admitted to probate by the Register of Wills of Philadelphia County, a will of this decedent, dated April 5, 1933. Letters testamentary were on that date granted to the Girard Trust Company, the executor named therein. On May 5, 1936, Charles Gearhart, the appellant, appealed to the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County from the probate referred to…