Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 16, 1973, Appeal, No. 30 (Stauch Estate)

lead-opinion

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

The Commonwealth has appealed from a decree of the orphans’ court division of the court below holding *289that a criminal fine levied against the decedent in his lifetime abated at his death and therefore could not be recovered from his personal representative as a claim against the estate.