Germantown Trust Co. v. Powell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 6 and 8, Jan. T., 1919, by the plaintiffs, from tbe decrees of C. P. Dauphin Co., Equity Docket, Nos. 576 and 578, 1916, dismissing bills in equity in cases of Germantown Trust Company v. A. W. Powell, Auditor General, and Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh v. A. W. Powell, Auditor General.
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Appeals, Nos. 6 and 8, Jan. T., 1919, by the plaintiffs, from tbe decrees of C. P. Dauphin Co., Equity Docket, Nos. 576 and 578, 1916, dismissing bills in equity in cases of Germantown Trust Company v. A. W. Powell, Auditor General, and Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh v. A. W. Powell, Auditor General. Bills in equity to restrain the auditor general from enforcing the escheat Act of June 7,1915, P. L. 278. Before Kunkel, P. J. The cases turned on the constitutionality of the act. The court dismissed the bills. Plaintiffs appealed. Errors assigned were in dismissing the bills.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
These two appeals raise the same question and will be considered together.
*76Plaintiffs, in their bills, seek to enjoin the auditor general of the Commonwealth from enforcing the provisions of the Escheat Act of June 7, 1915, P. L. 878, on the ground the legislation is unconstitutional. A demurrer filed to the bill was sustained by the court below, the constitutionality of the act upheld and a decree entered dismissing the bill, from which decree plaintiffs appealed.
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