Weiss Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

James W. Weiss died on May 29, 1970, at the age of 62. On August 10, 1970, Joan A. Kemp presented a petition for the probate of decedent’s (alleged) will to the Register of Wills of Berks County, who refused probate. Joan A. Kemp thereupon took an appeal to the Orphans’ Court (Division), which entered an Order sustaining the action of the Register. After her exceptions to the Order were dismissed, Joan A. Kemp took the present appeal.

The issue in the case is a very narrow one: was the purported will of James W. Weiss signed “at the end thereof,” as required by…