Meyer Estate

Shoyer, J.,. . . The testimony establishes that decedent was 68 years of age when he died. Decedent’s formal education did not go beyond the Northeast Manual Training School in Philadelphia. He was once employed as a pattern maker at Cramp Shipyard and later, for many years, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where he became a supervisor or leadman, and a teacher. He died on a Sunday *296at the Episcopal Hospital, and the following Monday-morning, his three longtime friends, Messrs. Stiles, Roach and Sheetz, went to decedent’s home, where he had lived alone, at 409 E. Montgomery Avenue. Mr. Stiles…