Shortlidge's Estate

Citations

• 214 Pa. 620
• 64 A. 318
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 710

Syllabus

<p>Res adfudicata — Court of common pleas — Orphans’ court — Life insurance.</p> <p>While the orphans’ court alone can distribute the proceeds of an insurance policy in the hands of an administrator among those entitled to receive them, the fund cannot be awarded by that court to a claimant whose claim has been adversely passed upon by the court of common pleas to which he, in a proper proceeding before it, had submitted the same.</p>