Pfoutz's Case

Citations

• 40 Pa. Super. 130
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 578

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Assignments of error — Decree—Opinion of court — Amendment.</p> <p>1. Where an assignment of error to a decree of the orphans’ court does not recite the decree in so many words but only the opinion of the court allowing the decree, a second assignment of error in proper form and reciting the decree, if promptly printed in the appellant’s paper-book and presented at the argument, will be allowed to be filed as in the nature of an amendment to the original assignment.</p> <p>Marriage — Marriage license — Annulment of license — Orphans’ court jurisdiction.</p> <p>2. The orphans’ court has po jurisdiction to annul a marriage license after the marriage has been consummated.</p>