Gadola Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

Filomena Gadola died intestate on October 24, 1959, survived by a daughter, Jennie Serra, her only heir at law. The appellant, Lena Gadola, is the child of the brother of Filomena Gadola’s deceased husband. When Lena was three or four years old, she was taken into the home of Filomena and her husband and, except for two periods of about two years each, resided with Filomena and her husband and Filomena alone, after the death of her uncle, for about forty-five years, or until Filomena’s death.

Lena believed herself to be the natural daughter of Filomena and later,…