Beeruk Estate

429 Pa. 415 (1968)

Beeruk Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued November 16, 1967.

April 16, 1968.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

John M. Dudrick, for Wladyslaw Biruk.

John J. McCarty, with him Henry C. McGrath, Leon E. Sperling, and Richter, Lord, Cavanaugh, McCarty & Raynes, for Mary Beeruk.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, April 16, 1968:

We are faced with cross appeals from a decree dividing the residue of Frank Beeruk's estate between his widow and his nephew, Wladyslaw Beeruk. Frank Beeruk's first wife died in 1959; at approximately the time of…