Cork exhumation may decide fate of $165m inheritance

A body was due to be exhumed in Cork this morning as part of a claim to a $165m (€139.5m) inheritance.

Thu, 13 May, 2004 - 08:55

A body was due to be exhumed in Cork this morning as part of a claim to a $165m (€139.5m) inheritance.

Sixty-two-year-old Dermot O’Regan, from Ovens in Co Cork has fought a 20-year-old legal battle to claim the money since the death of Irish emigrant Marry Ellen Sheehan in the US in 1983.

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Courts Heathrow Place: Cork Place: Ovens Place: Co Place: US Place: St Finbarr’s Cemetery Person: Dermot O’Regan Person: Marry Ellen Sheehan Person: O’Regan Person: Sheehan

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