Legal Opinion

Sheehan Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided March 23, 1952No. 2423 of 1951Published

1Opinion of the Court

Klein, P. J.,

— Francis Kelly, a nephew of William J. Sheehan, decedent, is attempting to enforce a claim in the sum of $13,000 against this estate under the terms of an oral contract for support and maintenance which he alleges was entered into by him with decedent several months prior to his death.

Claimant has instituted suit in the Court of Common Pleas No. 6 for recovery of his claim. The accountant in the present proceedings is asking us to transfer the *386action pending in that court to the orphans’ court in order that the claim might be heard in this court instead of in the common pleas…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. McLean's Executors v. WadeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1865
  2. Sergeant's Executors v. EwingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1858
  3. Ohio v. Union Tr. Co. of Pgh., Exr.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
  4. Commonwealth v. Easton Trust Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
  5. Sergeant's Heirs v. EwingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1860

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