In Re Estate of Kirkander

*51OPINION

KAUFFMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from the final decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, Orphans’ Court Division, dismissing as untimely an appeal from the probate of a document purporting to be the last will and testament of Warren R. Kirkander (“decedent”).1 The question presented is whether probate may be attacked on the ground of fraud practiced upon the register of wills after the time fixed by statute for an appeal has run. We answer in the affirmative and, accordingly, reverse and remand for an evidentiary hearing.

On August 24, 1978, almost two years after the…