Carwithen's Estate

Bok, J.,

— This is a petition for a declaratory judgment.

We have decided to grant it, for the ripening seeds of controversy are present, the question is one of which this court has jurisdiction, all persons interested are represented, and our opinion will be a practical help in ending the controversy: Kariher’s Petition (No. 1), 284 Pa. 455.

The general question to be decided is one of fundamental importance to fiduciaries, and arises in two companion cases, of which this is one. The other is Donovan’s Estate, 28 D. & C. 93 and petitions for a declaratory judgment were filed simultaneously in…