Bokey Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

Hilary Bokey (decedent), a resident of Lackawanna County, died January 22, 1960, intestate, survived by neither wife nor children. Sebastian Boki (Boki), administrator of decedent’s estate, filed his first and final account in the Orphans’ Court of Lackawanna County and, at the audit of that account, the court awarded the balance of the estate to Boki as decedent’s first cousin. Exceptions to that award were filed by a consular representative of the USSR on behalf of Soviet nationals claiming to be sisters of decedent. These exceptions alleged that the…