Baum Estate

418 Pa. 404 (1965)

Baum Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued March 23, 1965.

June 30, 1965.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

Francis J. Gafford, Deputy Attorney General, with him Eugene J. Brew, Jr., Counsel, and Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant.

William J. Kelly, with him Enoch C. Filer, Walter A. Dart, Jr. and Lyman C. Shreve, for appellees.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, June 30, 1965:

This appeal involves the validity of charitable bequests contained in a will executed less than 30 days before death. Testatrix…