In re Estate of Laurin

OPINION

KAUFFMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal by the grandchildren of Frances Lucy Laurin (“testatrix”), from a final decree of the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County dismissing their exceptions to the probate of a writing dated March 16, 1978.1

The specific issue before us is whether the court below correctly determined that a validly executed informal writing using only non-testamentary language in the present tense was the last will and testament of the testatrix. Because the record adequately supports the conclusion that testatrix intended the writing to…