Pleasanton's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

In each of these appeals there are fifty-two assignments of error, covering fifty-one of the printed pages in appellants’ brief. They suggest a more thorough acquaintance with the process of multiplication, than with the rule that distributions in the orphans’ court should be made in accordance with equitable principles: Lonergan’s Est., 303 Pa. 142. Happily, the points to which we need refer are fewer in number, and less difficult of solution, than the assignments of error would seem to indicate.

By a codicil to her will, testatrix provided as follows: “I, Julia…