Emmerich Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

This contest is between the widow and son of testator against three named charities. The question involves the construction of testator’s holographic will. Decedent was a lawyer, but for many years had ceased to practice actively. The language is most obscure and involved. What Mr. Chief Justice Maxey wrote in Williamson’s Estate, 302 Pa. 462, has particular application to the present situation, page 466: “As it is probable that no other reported will ever had the grammatical engineering of the will before us, it is useless to search for precedents which…