Succession of Riggio

EDWARDS, Judge.

Felix Anthony Riggio died on May 29, 1978. On April 6,1979, one of Riggio’s ten children, Anna Riggio Cannizzaro, alleging that Riggio had died intestate, petitioned to be appointed administratrix of the estate. Mrs. Cannizzaro complied with all the legal requisites and was confirmed as administra-trix on that same day.

On June 13, 1979, the administratrix, together with eight of decedent’s other nine children, filed a “petition for declaratory judgment and in the alternative for collation(.)” Peter Riggio, the tenth child, was named as defendant. It was alleged that in 1961,…