In Re Ferris

One month before she died, Anna Ferris, eighty years of age, feeble and deaf, in charge of a nurse in the home of the nurse's mother, signed a paper-writing, giving her estate to the nurse. The paper-writing was denied probate by the orphans court on the ground that it was not declared by the deceased to be her last will and testament to the two attesting witnesses.

The proof is this: The deceased had penned and signed a will, attested by two witnesses, giving her estate to the nurse. By her direction, it was taken to a lawyer for approval, who, upon observing that it contained no attestation…