Beeruk Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

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 her death, Frank consulted with an attorney concerning the emigration from Poland of his only living relative, his nephew Wladyslaw. After an extensive exchange of correspondence, Wladyslaw and his family (a wife and two children) arrived in the United States in January of 1963. Several days after Wladyslaw’s arrival, decedent and his nephew visited…