Patterson's Estate

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

This appeal is from the action of the orphan’s court dismissing exceptions filed by appellant to an adjudication awarding him $700 and interest, on a mortgage for $4,000i given by the decedent to appellant. The question of jurisdiction was waived and the claim was submitted under an agreement of counsel authorizing the court to decide the matter under the evidence and the law with the same effect as in the presentation of claims in the orphans’ court.

It is undisputed that J. M. Patterson died intestate April 22, 1923, at the age of about seventy-five years. On July 15,…