Benedum Estate

427 Pa. 408 (1967)

Benedum Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued October 4, 1967.

November 14, 1967.

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

C. Donald Gates, Jr., with him Brandt, Riester, Brandt & Malone, for appellant.

Harold R. Schmidt, with him Henry McC. Ingram, Robert S. Newkirk, and Rose, Schmidt and Dixon, and McDonald, Sanders, Wynn, Ginsburg, Phillips & Maddox, for appellee.

William A. Meyer, guardian and trustee ad litem, appellee.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, November 14, 1967:

The question involved: Is the adopted daughter of a deceased nephew, who…