Neglia Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

A petition for a declaratory judgment was filed in the Orphans’ Court of Cambria County by the personal representative of decedent’s estate to determine the ownership of thirteen $1,000 United States savings bonds, Series “E”, as between the decedent’s husband and her brother, the person designated on these bonds as co-owner with decedent. The court below decided that, by reason of the federal regulations, 1 ownership of the bonds was in the brother and not in the husband; from that ruling, this appeal was taken.

The findings of fact of the court below…