MacMackin Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

This appeal from an Orphans’ Court decree was originally taken jointly by Northern Baptist Convention and by Trustees of the Baptist City Mission, two separate and distinct beneficiaries under the will with which this case is concerned. Counsel for the appellees plainly pointed out in their brief the invalidity of the joint appeal as well as the procedural corrective open to the appellants in the circumstances (see Schuetz’s Estate, 315 Pa. 105, 109, 172 A. 865) with the result that, on the day the appeal was called for argument, the appellants caused it to be…