SHEERIN v. Beattie

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

The Register of Wills of Carbon County properly refused to probate a will where, before a formal decree of probate had been signed, verbal and written notice of an intention to file a caveat had been given him by the attorney for contestant, followed' in twenty days by the entry of a formal caveat and the filing of a statutory bond. Proponents, appellants herein, contend that the deputy register of wills had, in effect, probated the will despite the absence of a formal decree of probate and that the bond accompanying the formal caveat had been filed too…