Morgan v. Reel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 100, Oct. T., 1905, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1905, No. 186, on bill in equity in case of James W. Morgan v. Mary Olive Morgan Reel et al. Bill in equity for partition.
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Appeal, No. 100, Oct. T., 1905, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1905, No. 186, on bill in equity in case of James W. Morgan v. Mary Olive Morgan Reel et al. Bill in equity for partition. The case was heard by Over, J., a judge of the orphans’ court of Allegheny county, specially presiding at the request of the judges of the common pleas under the provisions of the act of April 18, 1905. From the record it appeared that on March 24, 1870, Conrad Reel died seized in fee-simple of certain real estate, and that on May 31, 1886, his widow died seized also of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Mitchell,
1. The important public question in this case is the constitutionality of the Act of April 18, 1905, P. L. 208, “ to authorize the judges of separate orphans’ courts to hear and determine proceedings in equity at the request of the judges of the common pleas.” Section 1 provides tliat “ in addition to the powers now possessed and exercised by the judges of the separate orphans’ courts of this commonwealth, said judges shall, when called upon by the president or other law judge of any court of common pleas, as hereinafter provided, have power to hear and…
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