Ruud Estate

Argued October 11, 1943. These appeals are from a final decree and opinion of the Orphans' Court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, dismissing exceptions of the appellants to the report of the Special Master disallowing the claims of the appellants who allegedly are two of the legatees under Section 19 of the will of Edwin Ruud, deceased. The testator died on December 9, 1932, at Pittsburgh, leaving the will in question dated March 12, 1931 and a codicil thereto dated June 4, 1932. The testator was, at the time of his death, the President of the Ruud Manufacturing Company, which company he…