Bergman v. Gross

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This proceeding is to recover a money claim against a decedent’s estate, and was begun in the form of a petition for a declaratory judgment under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act of June 18, 1923, P. L. 840, as amended (12 PS secs. 831 et seq.). Clearly this act was not designed to adjudicate a controversy such as this record presents.

The record shows that in 1929 appellants’ decedent, Kohler, acting apparently as agent, invested certain funds belonging to his sister, the original plaintiff below, in bonds of a building corporation of the face amount of…