Kelly's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This case in the form of an issue devisavit vel non issuing out of the orphans’ court involves the validity of a will alleged to have been executed by Bridget Kelly who died June 12, 1928. She could neither read nor write. The alleged execution of the will took place on June 2, 1928, while Mrs. Kelly was a patient in a hospital. Miss Wells, the superintendent of the hospital was one of the subscribing witnesses and identified her signature affixed as a subscribing witness. Miss Koch, the bookkeeper of the hospital, also subscribed her name as a witness to the will.…