Keefer Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

The question is whether a case for declaratory judgment is presented.

The controversy concerns the construction of a will. Decedent was the executor of his wife’s estate. Upon her decease he administered the estate and after filing an account made absolute distribution to himself. The husband died over three years after such distribution. Appellant, who claims under the wife’s will, contends that under its terms decedent did not possess an absolute estate in the residue, but possessed only a life estate.

In Ray’s Estate, 345 Pa. 210, 25 A. 2d 803, we…