Falcucci Name Case

Opinion by

Chief Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal from the decrees of the court below granting permission to two persons to change their names. Joseph Nicholas Falcucci filed a petition to have his name changed to Joseph Nicholas Frame. On the same day a minor brother, Benjamin R. Falcucci, by his next friend and father, Nicholas Falcucci, filed a petition to have his name changed to Thomas R. Frame. The facts and issues respecting both petitions are the same. Thomas E. Frame, Jr., a member of the Philadelphia Bar, appeared in propria persona to object to the prayers of both petitions. The…