Holt Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

This is an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Butler County which set aside the probate of the will of J. Leo Holt, declared that decedent had died intestate and directed the Register of Wills to issue Letters of Administration. The matter was heard before the Court below on a petition for a declaratory judgment under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act of June 18, 1923.* From this decree decedent’s widow, Phyllis Dittmer Holt, has taken this appeal.

Decedent died on March 5, 1958, survived by his widow and two minor children, Sharon Lee Holt and…