Jurkowitz Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

This is an appeal from a decree of an orphans’ court relating to practice and procedure under the Orphans’ Court Partition Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 337, as amended by the Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 707, 20 PS, 1181 et seq. The question is whether the court erred in authorizing, nunc pro tunc, the trustee to take a receipt from the purchasing heir for part of the purchase price representing his distributive share in the proceeds, instead of requiring the heir to pay the whole of the purchase price in cash, and later to receive from the trustee his…