Commonwealth v. Sweeney

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is an escheat proceeding certified by the orphans’ court to the common pleas, in which the court gave binding instructions to the jury in favor of the Commonwealth. Catherine Sweeney, now Catherine Davidson, who claims relationship with the deceased Sarah Sweeney and who traversed the finding of the orphans’ court that the property of the decedent had escheated, prosecutes this appeal.

Sarah Sweeney died intestate in March, 1918, aged about seventy-six years.- The questions certified were: Did she leave heirs or next of kin? If she did, is appellant one of…