Dalbey's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Kephart,

The facts show that in 1926 decedent, John W. Dalbey, executed a will which he kept along with other papers in a small wooden box in his house. He always had free access to the box up to his death. When he died neither this will nor any other could be found, and an administration was raised on his estate. His widow endeavors to have a copy of the 1926 will probated.

The court below properly held that the execution and contents' of the lost will had each been satisfactorily proved by two competent witnesses as required by law: see Harrison’s Estate, 316 Pa.…