In re Estate of Peles

KELLY, J.:

¶ 1 Appellants ask us to determine whether the trial court erred in affirming the decree of the Register of Wills, which refused to probate a later codicil to a will already admitted to probate. Specifically, Appellants claim that the three-month time limitation set forth in 20 Pa.C.S.A. § 3138 should not have barred probate of the later codicil. We hold that the later codicil was barred under Section 3138 of the Probate Code. Accordingly, we affirm.

¶ 2 The relevant facts and procedural history of this appeal are as follows. On May 28, 1958, Mary J. Peles, the testatrix, executed a…