Estate of Nigro

McCOY, J. pro tem. *

This isan appeal from a judgment on the verdict of a jury in a contest of a will before probate, and from the orders of the trial court denying appellants’ motions for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict and for a new trial.

On July 22, 1962, John Nigro, a shoemaker by trade, signed a typewritten document, here referred to as the Will, by which he bequeathed “three separate pieces of property” in Italy to his niece, Esterina Fata, and bequeathed “the balance of my Estate ... to the betterment of the town in Italy where I was born, Grimaldi, Italy,” with directions that…