McWilliams v. McCabe

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

Before passing upon the question raised by the appeal, namely, whether or not the lower Court properly assumed jurisdiction in a Declaratory Judgment proceeding, we shall first dispose of the appellees’ petition to quash the appeal to this Court based on the contention that'the Order of the lower Court dismissing preliminary objections to the petition was interlocutory. The right of appeal raising a question of jurisdiction under the Act of 1925 has proved so perplexing to the bar that we shall consider it at some length.

' The appellants contend that their…