Orlady v. Orlady

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

There are two appeals, one from a common pleas judgment for the contestant, and the other, from an orphans’ court decree sustaining contestant’s appeal from the register and setting aside a decree of probate.

Miss Orlady suffered a severe stroke June 17, 1937; she died February 7, 1938, leaving surviving two brothers, the parties to these appeals. On the day after her death, Frederick L. Orlady, hereafter called proponent, offered for probate an instrument dated August 21, 1937, purporting to be executed by mark, together with a codicil dated December 31, 1937,…