Gray Estate

HOUSE, P.J.,

— Isaiah Samuel Gray died intestate on January 3, 1964. At the time of his death Isaiah Gray’s only assests were $638 in cash and a thirty-eight-acre farm located in Madison Township, Armstrong County, Pa.

*562From 1964 until 1973, no action was taken to settle the estate. During this time the farm grew up in weeds and the buddings lay in a state of disrepair. George C. Minnick, a grandnephew of Isaiah Gray, saw that the farm was lying fallow and thought he might acquire it with the idea of building a home on the farm to which he could retire. George Minnick discussed the matter with…