In re the Estate of Gorrell

Clapp, A. M.

This application for probate comes before the Orphans Court because of doubts arising on the face of the holographic papers propounded. From the facts in the case five questions emerge.

The first question is whether the testatrix acknowledged the making of her signature. The attestation clause declares *169she signed the will in the presence of the witnesses. Bnt in fact she did not; for when first she showed them the testamentary papers they saw her signature already thereon. The witnesses substantially agree that her words to them then were that she wanted them “to witness her will.”…