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Fri 05 May 2004Action on claim to $160m estate in US struck outThe High Court has struck out proceedings in which a Cork businessman alleged that a university professor made a false claim that he was entitled to benefit from the $160 million estate left by a woman who died in the US 20 years ago.Mr Jeremiah O'Regan (otherwise known as Dermot), Crookstown, Co Cork, had alleged that Prof John Hall of UCC and Bishopstown Avenue, Cork, had made a false claim to the fortune and had consequently deprived him of his rightful claim against the estate of the late Mary Ellen Sheehan, of Savannah, Georgia.