RUBEN ESTATE

No. 1503 of 1951.

87 Pa. D. & C. 78 (1953)

Ruben Estate

Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

October 9, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sachs & Caplan, for accountant.

Harry R. Levy, for petitioners.

Joseph M. Gelman, for Commonwealth.

Samuel Goldstock, for Jewish Community Fund of Cleveland.

Raymond Strassburger, p.p.

David Roth, for heirs of Bertha Levy.


BOYLE, P.J., October 9, 1953.

The exceptions to the decree of distribution present the question whether an absent and unheard-from beneficiary who was in several Nazi concentration camps in Europe during the late war and was last seen on January 27, 1945, in the notorious camp at Buchenwald, is presumed to have died on January 27, 1945, under the doctrine of exposure to a specific peril. The master appointed by the court...

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