Fleming's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

This appeal is by a proponent from the decree of the orphans’ court revoking the probate of a will and refusing to grant an issue devisavit vel non. Joseph K Fleming, a resident of Pittsburgh, died June 29, 1909, at the age of sixty-four years, unmarried and without issue. He left an estate of about $200,000 and as his next of kin remote collateral relatives. He had destroyed a will three weeks prior to his death, and, on proof of intestacy, letters of administration were granted upon his estate. In the fall of 1916 there was presented for probate a paper as…