Cordes's Estate

Miller, P. J.,

The question is whether there was any survivorship as between this decedent and his wife, who lost their lives in the same disaster.

The facts.

The decedent and his wife were found dead in their home in the City of McKeesport on Dee. 21, 1921. He was aged sixty-one, and his wife seventy. They had been married but a short time before, each having been previously married. They lived alone in an old and apparently poorly constructed dwelling at No. 628 Hartman Street. Neither left issue to survive.

Neither of them having been seen by their neighbors for some days, the Police…