Thomas Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones,

Rebecca B. Thomas, an octogenarian spinster, died on January 12, 1971, leaving a last will and testament dated May 24,1966. Following issuance of letters testamentary on January 28, 1971, Central Penn National Bank, an executor of the estate, filed a statement of proposed distribution and a petition for adjudication *548in accordance with a first accounting with the Court of Common Pleas, Orphans’ Court Division, of Chester County.1

This appeal arises from a decree of that court dismissing objections and exceptions of Wilbur D. Thomas, a nephew of the decedent and…