Durst v. FRICK

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

This appeal questions tbe jurisdiction of tbe Common Pleas Court, Trial Division, of Philadelphia over a suit in assumpsit against an inter vivos trust being administered by the Common Pleas Court, Orphans’ Court Division, of Delaware County. The court below held that it had such jurisdiction. We reverse.

Orphans’ courts were abolished and their jurisdiction transferred to the common pleas courts by article 5 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and its implementing Schedule, effective January 1,1969. Pa. Const, art. 5, §1 et seq. Section 4 of the Schedule provides that in…