Swentzell's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

In construing wills the courts are always searching for the testator’s true intent. The sole question for de termination in the present case is whether the real estate of the deceased passed under the residuary clause.

Testator was an unmarried man, by profession a dentist. His next of kin were an uncle and several cousins. The orphans’ court has found from the evidence that they were nothing to him. Decedent wrote his own will. In it he directed the payment of his debts and funeral expenses. These it turned out amounted respectively to $6,408.75 and $12,681.75.…