GARRETT ESTATE


371 Pa. 284 (1952)

Garrett Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 24, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna Gadle, appellant, in propria persona.

Harry T. Devine, Assistant Counsel, with him Percival H. Granger, Counsel, Joseph X. Yaffe, Assistant Counsel, Harry F. Stambaugh, Special Counsel, and Robert E. Woodside, Jr., Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Arthur R. Schor, with him Harold I. Baynton, Gerald A. Gleeson and Howard H. Yocum, for Attorney General of United States et al., appellees.

Before DREW, C.J., JONES, BELL and MUSMANNO, JJ.


OPINION PER CURIAM, June 24, 1952:

Henrietta E. Garrett died on November 16, 1930, intestate as to her residuary estate of over $17,000,000. This is an appeal in propria persona by Anna Gadle from the adjudication of the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia County rejecting her claim and awarding the estate to certain named next of kin, and the decree approving the schedule of distribution.

Nearly 26,000 claims were filed in the Court below by persons claiming the...

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