Beall Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Jones,

Walter E. Beall died testate on July 19, 1951. His will, which he had executed in 1932 while married, was rendered largely inoperative because of the effect of his subsequent divorce on his testamentary dispositions to his wife. He left surviving him two children who, by reason of the exclusion of their mother, became the accelerated and sole legatees in equal shares under their father’s will. One of the children, a daughter, is an adult; the other is a minor son of whose estate Fidelity Trust Company, of Pittsburgh, the executor, is testamentary guardian.

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