In re the Accounting of Alhart

Witmer, S.

In this judicial settlement proceeding construction of the will is requested in two respects. The will was typed upon the business stationery of the decedent, contains no attestation clause, and was evidently prepared without the aid of counsel. The first question raised concerns punctuation. From the context it is clear that a period instead of a comma should follow the word “ reservation ”, and that the first letter in the next word, to wit, “ property ” should be capitalized, since that word in effect is the first word in the next sentence. The first sentence will thus read as…