Legal Opinion

Kirk Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided April 7, 1967No. 3361 of 1966Published

1Opinion of the Court

Saylor, J.,

This is an appeal from probate of a single page holographic will executed on April 27,1955, and subsequently obliterated in part by *778testator. The register of wills granted letters testamentary to the trust company named in the will (now Provident National Bank) and prepared a “copy fair” which eliminated the dispositive provisions of the will.

The parties are Mabel E. Tremblay, originally named in the will as sole legatee of decedant’s entire estate, and Edith Kirk Knerr, a first cousin, once removed, of decedent and his sole heir under the intestate laws.

There is agreement on the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. McClure's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  2. Braun EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  3. Holt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  4. Estate of TomlinsonPennsylvania Orphans' Court, Montgomery County · 1890
  5. Heller EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1945

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