Estate of Shelly

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

These appeals contest decrees of the Orphans’ Court Division of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas which in effect direct the register of wills to accept a purported will of Rebecca Shelly for probate. Appellants contend that the orphans' court erred in allowing the appeal from the decree of the register of wills because no bond was timely filed as required by statute.1 We agree and reverse the decree of the orphans’ court.2

Rebecca Roberts Shelly died on February 16, 1971, at the age of eighty-three leaving an estate valued at approximately…