Hemingway Estate

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Bok,

R. S. Hemingway, a distinguished member of the Columbia County Bar, died on April 27, 1955.

Just thirty-one days before, on March 26th, he executed a will, a trust agreement, and a codicil, all on the same day. He dated the will and trust agreement back to October 15, 1954, and the codicil to December 10, 1954. This was done, as he said himself, to obviate the thirty-day limitation, in case he should die within it, set out in the Wills Act of April 24, 1947, P. L. 89, §7; 20 P.S. §180.7(1) on bequests to charities.

There was an old trust agreement, dated June 21, 1926,…