Crawford's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

When charges of disqualification were preferred against the presiding judge of the orphans’ court because of alleged prejudice and hostile feeling against an attorney who was also the litigant, a judge from another county was called in to pass on the charges. ■ The authority of the court below to certify the question of disqualification to a judge of another county, who is not the judge residing nearest to the county seat where the case was on trial, is here challenged.

The Act of April 15, 1834, P. L. 349, section 37, provides, inter alia, that when the president…