Rafferty's Estate

Bolger, J.,

This unique holographic will is an illustration of the principle that no will has a brother: Fetter Est., 152 Pa. Superior Ct. 10, 13; and that precedents are of little value in its construction: Tombs Est., 155 Pa. Superior Ct. 605. Such wills are their own best interpreters: Emmerich Est., 347 Pa. 307.

Exceptants complain of the auditing judge’s conclusion which attributed to the disputed phrase a connection with the phrase that precedes it, in accordance with which more than one half of the entire estate was awarded to the testator’s sister Mary, which award requires an abatement…