DETTRA ESTATE

No. 3486 of 1961.

29 Pa. D. & C. 2d 429 (1963)

Dettra Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

March 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otis W. Erisman and Frank F. Truscott, for petitioners.

Sydney J. Fires, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Commonwealth.

Holbrook M. Bunting, Jr., and Paul Maloney, for claimants.

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


LEFEVER, J., March 22, 1963.

Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania a "party in interest who is aggrieved by the decree of the register", so as to entitle it to appeal from the probate of a disputed will which bequeathed decedent's entire residuary estate to strangers, even though it later develops that decedent may be survived by first cousins? This issue is raised by proponents' petition to dismiss the Commonwealth's appeal.

Elsie W. Dettra died on May 19,...

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