In re the Probate of the Will of Kapp

McGarey, S.

The decedent herein died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the island of Amboina on January 18, 1945, leaving him surviving as his only distributees his mother, the proponent, and his father.

*310The proponent seeks to establish a nuncupative oral will made by decedent while in the military service of the United States as a soldier in the army. In support of the allegations of her petition proponent produced two friends of the decedent, both of whom were also members of the United States Army and prisoners of war with decedent on the island of Amboina. One testified that he and the…