Bass' Estate

Ladner, J.,

As the facts appear in the adjudication, no restatement of them is necessary. Separate exceptions are filed on behalf of testator’s daughters (Audrey Bass Howley and Lillie Bass Mulholland) questioning the auditing judge’s ruling that decedent’s checks, drawn to the order of exceptants, raised the presumption that they were for payments on account of the debts due by decedent to the payees, thereby shifting to exceptants the burden of proving them to have been gifts. We approve the auditing judge’s ruling and to the authorities cited by him add Goldberg, Exec., v. Wine, 326 Pa. 335…