Shewchuk Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberto,

We are confronted in this appeal with legal problems generated by the belated reappearance of a long lost daughter four years after the judicially approved distribution of her deceased father’s estate to his brother and two sisters. The principal issues involved concern (1) the power of an orphans’ court to review and reopen the distribution of a decedent’s estate on the ground of fraud and (2) the sufficiency of evidence of fraud in the instant case. We hold that an orphans’ court does have such power and that the findings of fraud are adequately supported by…