Franz Will

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Drew,

Geraldine E. Franz and Xavier W. Franz, Jr., grandchildren of testator, Franz Franz, brought these appeals from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County refusing an issue devisavit vel non and dismissing their appeals from the admission to probate of a writing purporting to be the last will of Franz Franz.

Franz Franz died on January 14, 1948, at the age of 80, leaving to survive him two daughters, Helen Franz, who lived with him, and Mary Rothleder, and two grandchildren, Geraldine E. Franz and Xavier W. Franz, Jr., the children of a son, Xavier W.…