Schulz Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

The appeal is from an order of the Superior Court affirming a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster County refusing to make an order on the register of wills authorizing the grant of letters of administration de bonis non cum testamento annexo after twenty-one years from the death of testator. See sec. 21 of the Act of March 15, 1832, P. L. 135 (reenacted sec. 302 Fiduciaries Act of 1949, P. L. 512, 20 PS 320.302).

Max Schulz, the testator, died May 30, 1917. He was possessed of a twenty-six acre farm and personal property estimated at |3,000. He was…