Cierlinski v. Rys

Citations

• 225 Pa. 312
• 74 A. 172
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 655

Syllabus

<p>Orphans’ court — Jurisdiction—Collateral attack on decree — Widow’s exemption.</p> <p>1. The orphans’ court is a court of record and its decrees within its jurisdiction stand on the same footing as those of any court of record and cannot be examined collaterally nor set aside except in due course of law by appeal.</p> <p>2. A decree of the orphans’ court awarding a widow real estate as a part of her exemption is conclusive, if unappealed from, and cannot be attacked collaterally in an action of ejectment; and this is the case although the petition for the exemption shows on its face that the widow had remarried before the petition was filed.</p>