DESCAMP ESTATE


405 Pa. 331 (1961)

Descamp Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. McWhinney, with him Goehring, McWhinney & Grubbs, for appellant.

Daniel J. Parent, with him Joseph H. Kifer, and Arthur E. Ashton, for Veterans' Administration, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and ALPERN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, December 5, 1961:

Judith Ruth Descamp is the helpless stepchild of a deceased war veteran of the United States. About a year before the minor's eighteenth birthday, her guardian was notified by the Veterans' Administration and Social Security Administration that all benefits payable in her behalf by those agencies would cease as of her eighteenth birthday. The guardian, Pittsburgh National...

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