Donatelli v. Carino

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

This appeal, which we allowed from the decision of the Superior Court (179 Pa. Superior Ct. 39, 116 A. 2d 95), concerns the jurisdiction of the County Court of Allegheny County in an action brought by partners against a copartner. Both the County Court itself and the Superior Court held that the former had no jurisdiction of the suit because the Act of May 5, 1911, P. L. 198, as amended, creating the County Court of Allegheny County, did not confer on it jurisdiction in equity: Kemnitzer v. Kemnitzer, 335 Pa. 105, 110, 6 A. 2d 571, 573; DuPuy Estate,…