Legal Opinion

Snyder Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 28, 1972No. Appeal, No. 12PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court Division of the Erie Common Pleas Court. This decree sustained appellee’s objections to an account and *402audit statement of the estate of Donald J. Snyder and held that the testator intended the last sentence of the body of his will to operate as a specific rather than a general residuary clause. We believe that the orphans’ court’s finding was supported by competent and adequate evidence. Accordingly, we affirm.

The testator Donald J. Snyder died on May 23, 1970. His will, executed on January 5, 1967,1 read as…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Pavlinko EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1960
  2. Grier EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  3. Snyder EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  4. Jessup EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970
  5. Faller EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Stancik EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973

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