Sando Will

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lackawanna County sustaining an appeal from a decree of the Register of Wills refusing to probate paper writings purporting to be the will and codicil of the late Judge M. F. Sando who, for many years, was President Judge of the Orphans’ Court of that county.

Decedent died on September 10, 1945. A week or ten days after the death an envelope was found in decedent’s locked roll top desk in his court chambers, in which was the questioned will and codicil, fastened by permanent metal eyelets with a…