Plogstert Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

Appellee, The Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Administrator of the Estate of Herman E. Plogstert, deceased, has no substantive right in these proceedings which requires judicial protection. It is insisting upon nothing more than a formal employment by the Orphans’ Court of procedural mechanisms which, while ordinarily desirable, are of no practical value under the facts here involved.

Decedent died intestate August 2, 1942, leaving to survive him as sole heir his mother Louise Scheiber. The Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh was appointed administrator of…