Pruski's Appeal

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

Mary Pruski died intestate on October 28, 1939. Her surviving husband has appealed from a decree of the orphans’ court distributing the estate of his deceased wife to her children. In this distribution appellant is excluded for the reason that he wilfully neglected to provide for his wife for more than one year before her death. Section 5 of the Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 429, 20 PS §41, provides: “No husband who shall have, for one year or upwards previous to the death of his wife, wilfully neglected or refused to provide for his wife, or shall have for that period or…