In re the Estate of Tien

Bertram R. Geleand, S.

By decree on accounting dated September 5, 1944, the sum of $1,177.64 (now $2,727.64) was directed to be deposited with the City Treasurer for the benefit of Morris Tynowicka and Frieda Tynowicka who at that time resided in Poland. These two persons were brother and sister of the above decedent.

At the time of the decree the Second World War was in progress and Poland had been occupied for over four years by Germany. Morris Tynowicka and Frieda Tynowicka had not been heard from since the outbreak of the war in 1939. Neither they nor any members of their families were ever…