McCaffrey Will

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

James J. McCaffrey died on March 1:6, 1961, leaving two testamentary instruments—a holographic will dated in 1939, and a conformed copy of a 1947 will.1 Both instruments were lodged with the register of wills but only the 1939 document was offered for probate. In *4181964, the register of wills determined that the 1947 will could not Tbe probated and that the 1939 writing should be admitted to probate. Appellee—administratrix of the heir-at-law—appealed to the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia which vacated probate of the 1939 will. The court en banc dismissed…