Jaekel Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Bucks County entered after the first and final accounting in the Estate of Frederic B. Jaekel by the executors of the deceased executrix.

Frederic B. Jaekel, (decedent), a Bucks County resident, died on February 9, 1943, survived by his widow, Edith M. Jaekel, and one daughter, Virginia J. Clough. Frederic B. Jaekel, Jr., decedent’s son who was mentioned in decedent’s will, had predeceased decedent and, at the time of his death, he left neither wife nor issue.

In decedent’s will—dated January 11, 1919, and not…