Sharples's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

These two appeals are from dismissal of exceptions to an adjudication of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County. The will and six codicils of Francis W. Sharpies, deceased, form an extended testamentary writing, of which we are here concerned with only two paragraphs, the first of which is altered by a codicil.

Francis W. Sharpies, who died December 23, 1929, made bequests, among others, to two nephews and a niece, brothers and sister, under the provisions of the 21st paragraph of the will (as modified by a codicil), in which he divided his residuary…