Gorsuch Estate

Lefever, J.,

The novel question before us is whether administrators pendente lite, appointed by the register of wills during a will contest before him, shall continue to hold and administer decedent’s estate until final disposition of the ap*191peal from the register’s decision sustaining the will, despite the fact that the register at the same time granted letters testamentary to the executors named in the will.

Decedent died on April 21, 1954, leaving an alleged will, dated December 28, 1953, and codicil, dated January 4,1954, wherein she appointed Albert Barnes Zink, Howard J. Lynch and the…