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CRAIG ESTATE

379 Pa. 157 (1954)

Craig Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 8, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Carson Bodine, with him John D.M. Hamilton, T.A. Sampson, Pepper, Bodine, Frick, Sheetz & Hamilton, and Stranahan & Sampson, for appellants.

William H. Eckert, with him Milford L. McBride and Milford L. McBride, Jr., McBride & McBride, and Smith, Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald & Eckert, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION PER CURIAM, November 8, 1954:

The distinction between the concurrent jurisdiction of the Federal or Common Pleas Courts and the Orphans' Court involving proceedings in personam (Commonwealth v. Easton Trust Company, 347 Pa. 162, 32 A.2d 215) and the exclusive jurisdiction of the Orphans' Court involving the accounting and distribution of a decedent's estate (Thompson, Trustee, v. Fitz-Gerald, 329 Pa. 497, 198 A. 58, affirmed...

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