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SHEWCHUK ESTATE

444 Pa. 249 (1971)

Shewchuk Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Martin, for appellant.

Perrin C. Hamilton, with him Hamilton, Darmopray, Malloy & Milner, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY and BARBIERI, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, October 12, 1971:

We are confronted in this appeal with legal problems generated by the belated reappearance of a long lost daughter four years after the judicially approved distribution of her deceased father's estate to his brother and two sisters. The principal issues involved concern (1) the power of an orphans' court to review and reopen the distribution of a decedent's estate on the ground of fraud and (2) the sufficiency of evidence...

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