Knecht's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

This appeal is from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Northampton County sustaining an appeal taken by Edwin E. Knecht from the decision of the register of wills, admitting to probate a testamentary instrument, dated April 30, 1937, and a writing dated April 23, 1940, purporting to be a codicil thereto, as the last will and testament of his deceased wife, Ada J. Bundle Knecht, who died, on April 28, 1940, in St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Prior to her marriage to Edwin F. Knecht testatrix executed two formal wills. By the earlier of the two, dated…