Leech's Estate

Citations

• 236 Pa. 57
• 84 A. 594
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 711

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Charitable bequests — Attesting witness — Interested witness — Acts of April 26,1855, P. L. 828, and June 7,1911, P. L. 702.</p> <p>1. Under tbe Act of April 26, 1855, P. L. 328, as it stood unamended by tbe Act of June 7, 1911, P. L. 702, a witness who was a legatee under a will, although not interested in a charitable gift being contested, was not a disinterested witness within the'meaning of the earlier act. The Act of June 7,1911, had no retroactive force and was not applicable to wills executed prior to its date.</p> <p>2. Where a will containing charitable bequests, has as one of its two attesting witnesses a legatee under the will, the charitable bequests are not saved by the fact that there were two codicils to the will each attested by one disinterested witness, and that witness not one of the subscribing witnesses to the will proper.</p>