Skrtic Will

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

Following the filing of a caveat, a writing dated March 16, 1950, signed by mark and subscribed by three witnesses, was offered for probate as the will of the decedent, Toma Skrtic. A hearing was held by the Deputy Register of Wills who refused the application for admission of the alleged testamentary paper to probate. The proponents of the will appealed to the Orphans’ Court where, a jury trial having been waived (Act of August 10, 1951, P. L. 1168, Section 745 (c)), and considerable testimony having been taken in a hearing de novo before Judge Boyle,…