Liberty Bank & Trust Co. v. Commonwealth

Henninger, P. J.,

This action for a declaratory judgment was brought by the guardian of Mary Petri, an incompetent, against her husband, Andrew G. Petri, her three children, the Metzgers, and against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is maintaining her at the Allentown State Hospital. The purpose of the action is to determine the liability of the several parties plaintiff and defendant for the the support of Mary Petri, the liability of their several estates and, still more important, the order of their liability.

So far as the estates of the parties are concerned, Mary Petri has a small…