Snedeker Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Drew,

Lucy M. Snedeker died testate on August 8, 1948. Her will was admitted to probate by the Register of Wills of Bradford County and thereafter S. Gayle McKean Rowland, decedent’s niece and next of kin, filed an appeal in the Orphans’ Court alleging forgery by insertion and undue influence by one William P. Wilson, executor and remainderman under that will. The learned court below refused to grant an issue d.v.n. on either ground and dismissed the appeal. From that order contestant has appealed to this Court.

The oft repeated rule is that an issue d.v.n. will only…