Heil Estate

PALMER, P. J.,

The question presented is whether the Commonwealth is entitled to the distributive estate of decedent as statutory heir *184under section 1.3(6) of the Intestate Act of April 24, 1947, P. L. 80, sec. 3, as amended, Act of December 10, 1959, P. L. 1747, no. 652, sec. 1, 20 PS §1.3, as against respondents, the children of great-uncles and great-aunts of decedent.

Relevantly, section 1.3 of the act, as amended in 1959, provides:

“The share of the estate, if any,, to which the surviving spouse is not entitled, and the entire estate if there is no surviving spouse, shall descend in the…