Estate of Logan

OPINION

NIX, Justice.

This is an appeal from the final decree of the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County affirming the refusal of the Register to admit to probate a document purported to be the last will of the decedent, George Thomas Logan. The basis of the court’s action was its conclusion that the writing in question did not possess the requisite animus testandi which is an indispensable attribute of a will. It is this decision that we are now called upon to scrutinize.

The decedent died on September 4, 1974. On September 24, 1974, letters of administration…