Berdar Estate

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Benjamin B. Jones,

This is a controversy over the ownership of $11,800, the amount on deposit in the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Homestead (Association) in a joint savings account with the right of survivorship held in the names of Mitro Berdar (Berdar) and Mary Malutinok (Malutinok).

Berdar died, intestate, on February 25, 1858, survived by a wife and one grandchild, both of whom reside within the jurisdiction of the Soviet Union. Berdar’s personal representative, by petition and citation under §301(13) of the Orphans’ Court Act of 1951, 1 instituted an…