Fahey Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

We are required to dismiss this petition for a declaratory judgment under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act of June 18,1923, P. L. 840, as amended by the Act of May 22, 1935, P. L. 228, 12 PS 831 et seq., as amended by the Act of May 26, 1943, P. L. 645. Such remedy is not an optional substitute for a statutory one specifically provided: Gerety Estate, 349 Pa. 417, 37 A. 2d 792; Keefer Estate, 351 Pa. 343, 41 A. 2d 666, and the cases therein cited.

What the parties seek in this proceeding is to have a legal determination of the extent of the interests…