Strause's Estate

Citations

• 75 Pa. Super. 276
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 265

Syllabus

<p>Orphans’ court — Jurisdiction—Bank account — Survivorship— Bight to funds.</p> <p>The orphans’ court has jurisdiction finally to decide questions of property already actually in a decedent’s estate, and incidentally, where the facts call for it, to decree a final surrender of such assets to outside claimants.</p> <p>Where a mother and daughter deposited to 'their joint names a fund resulting from the sale of real estate in which the mother had but a life interest, and the mother died ten days before the daughter, and the. administrator of the latter took the fund, it is not error for the orphans’ court to refuse to award it to the administrator of the mother’s estate.</p>