Gilpin v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 80 and 82, Oct. T., 1920, by plaintiff, from decrees of C. P. Armstrong Co., Dec. T., 1919, Nos. 75 and 78, dismissing bills in equity in case of Oliver W. Gilpin v. James E. Brown et al. Bills in equity for partition. Before King, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court entered decrees dismissing the bills. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were decrees, quoting them.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
In neither of the two bills for partition filed in the court below was all of the real estate of the common ancestor included. He died seized in severalty of three *399tracts of land, and of undivided interests in two others. One bill was for the partition of the land held in severalty, and the other for that of the undivided interests.
The Act of March 13, 1847, P. L. 319, declares “The jurisdiction of the several orphans’ courts of this Commonwealth, in the partition and valuation of real estate, shall extend to any undivided interest, in fee simple, in any lands or tenements of which…
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