Summerton v. Mead

Flick, P. J.,

A petition has been filed by R. N. Summerton, Lynn Branch and R. A. Niver, auditors for Warren County, under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act of June 18,1923, P. L. 840, as amended and supplemented, 12 PS §831-53, asking the court to determine whether it is lawful for the Warren County Commissioners acting as Commissioners of the Rouse Estate to invest Rouse Estate funds in such securities as are legal investments for funds in the hands of fiduciaries.

In view of the Supreme Court’s decision in Carwithen’s Estate, 327 Pa. 490, there is some doubt as to whether the court should…