McDowell's Estate

Per Curiam,

These two appeals, one from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County and the other from the Orphans’ Court of Blair County, raise the same question and were argued together. The decedents died insolvent. The Commonwealth presented claims to recover the amounts of public assistance furnished decedents, in one case $339.00 and in the other, $175.00.

Section 15 of the Old Age Assistance Law, Act of June 25, 1936, First Special Session, P. L. 28, made the estate of a beneficiary liable for repayment of assistance; it provided, inter alia, that “Claims for assistance furnished shall…