Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1937

Cope's Estate

Cope's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided November 26, 1937 · Schaffer, Maxey, Drew, Linn, Stern, Barnes
195 A. 874; 328 Pa. 296; 1938 Pa. LEXIS 411

Cope's Estate

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This is an appeal from the decree of the orphans’ court dismissing a petition for review of an adjudication entered June 2, 1898. Over thirty-nine years having elapsed since the adjudication was entered, it is now too late to reconsider the questions there determined, in the absence of any showing of actual fraud: Elkins’s Est., 325 Pa. 373, 190 A. 650; Knox’s Est. (No. 1), 328 Pa. 177, 195 A. 28. The situation is not altered by the *297 petitioner’s disposition to call an alleged error on the part of the auditing judge a constructive fraud.

Appeal dismissed at appellant’s cost.

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