Griffiths' Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

In accordance with section 18 of the Register of Wills Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 415, 422, appellees (as proponents of testator’s will, which had been lodged with the register of wills of Delaware County, pending proof of execution and probate), presented a petition to the orphans’ court of that county, asking it to require the register “to certify to the said court the entire record pertaining to the probate of the will.” The court accepted the petition and fixed a date for a hearing; whereupon the register, after notice of the action of the court, and without…