In Re Estate of Gladowski

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

This appeal challenges a final decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Orphans’ Court Division, which ruled in part that the proceeds of a savings bank account in the joint names of Joseph Gladowski, deceased, and his daughter, Ann Mazuran, are not an asset of the decedent’s estate; but rather the property of Ann Mazuran. The appellants are three of the decedent’s seven surviving children. 1

Joseph Gladowski died testate on September 30, 1976, at the age of eighty-five. He had come to the United States from Poland at the age of twelve…