CLINGERMAN v. SADOWSKI


513 Pa. 179 (1986)

519 A.2d 378

Jacqueline Victoria CLINGERMAN, Executrix of the Estate of Anna M. Sadowski, deceased, Appellee, v. William B. SADOWSKI, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest P. DeHaas, Coldren, DeHaas & Radcliffe, Uniontown, for appellant.

Bernard S. Shire, Shire & Bergstein, Monessen, David R. Gold, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

NIX, Chief Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether the death of a tenant by the entireties, who has instituted an action for partition of the entireties property, operates to terminate the action and to vest the disputed property in the surviving tenant.

On October 14, 1981, appellee's decedent, Anna M. Sadowski, filed a Complaint in Equity against appellant, William B. Sadowski, seeking equal division of all assets held...

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