Pope v. Dascher

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The issue raised upon this appeal is whether a court of common pleas or the orphans’ court had jurisdiction to determine the ownership of certain realty recorded in decedent’s name at the time of death and of certain shares of corporate stock registered in decedent’s name at the time of death. The Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County ruled that jurisdiction was in the orphans’ court. The validity of that ruling is challenged on this appeal.

William Pope, in 1915, founded Crescent Nut and Chocolate Company (Crescent), a corporation, and, when he died in 1921,…