In re the Estate of Riggs

S. Samuel Di Palco, S.

This is a proceeding to compel the administrator of this estate to pay a portion of the share due to petitioner as a distributee of the decedent. The petitioner alleges that he and nine others are paternal first cousins of the decedent. A hearing on the status of the petitioner was held.

At the outset petitioner claimed that the decedent was the daughter of one Leon Corey Biggs, his uncle, either legitimate or adopted or both. The proof adduced at the hearing, including the testimony of Mary M. Quillen and Evelyn J. Krug and the documentary proof in the nature of a…