Cappuccio's Estate

Opinion

by James, J.,

This is an appeal by Lncy A. Cappuccio, widow of Angelo Cappuccio, deceased, from the dismissal of exceptions to an adjudication by the orphans’ court in allowing a claim of the decedent’s mother, Mary Cappuccio, in the sum of $1,500.

Decedent died intestate on January 4, 1933, leaving to survive him his wife, his mother Mary Cappuccio, and several brothers and sisters. Mary Cappuccio, mother of the decedent, presented a claim for loans to the decedent totalling $1,500; $700 in 1921 and $800 in 1923. After a hearing before the auditing judge, the claim was allowed in the…