In Re Estate of Chiara

OPINION

POMEROY, Justice.

This appeal raises the question whether $32,000 of a decedent’s money deposited in two banks and represented by three savings certificates is an asset of the decedent’s estate, or whether, on the contrary, the money had been given by decedent in her lifetime to her son, Joseph E. Chiara. The orphans’ court division held the latter.

Constance Chiara, the decedent, died testate on October 26, 1969. Her will was duly probated and letters tés tamentary issued to decedent’s two children, Joseph and a daughter, Gloria. The will provided that, except for certain named personal…