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DREER ESTATE

No. 2627 of 1955.

22 Pa. D. & C. 2d 737 (1960)

Dreer Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

December 23, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Walsh and Lewis E. VanDusen, Jr., of Drinker, Biddle and Reath, for exceptant. .. .. ..

Thomas S. Weary of Duane, Morris & Heckscher and Nicholas R. Doman, contra.

Before Klein, P. J., Bolger, Lefever, Saylor and Shoyer, JJ.

SAYLOR, J., December 23, 1960.

The issue to be determined is whether a person adopted in Pennsylvania may succeed as heir to her adoptive father in distribution of that portion of the estate of his sister, a domiciliary of France, as to which there is an intestacy.

Augusta N. Dreer, a long-time resident of France, died there on July 29, 1954, leaving a last will and testament dated June 11, 1945, which, with...

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