Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 5628. Money to be paid into court in case of adverse claims

(a) If any person or persons shall claim adversely to each other any estate or interest in the land, property or materials selected by the board of commissioners to be appropriated, injured or destroyed for the purposes mentioned in this act,  1 and the viewers shall not be able to determine who are the owner or owners of said land, property or materials, or the value of their estates and interests therein, they shall so report, valuing the land, property or materials as a whole, and upon the confirmation by the court of the report of said viewers, if no appeal shall be taken therefrom, the commissioners of the county shall pay into the court the whole of the said valuation money; thereupon, the title of the land, property or material and the estates and interests of all the owners thereof shall become vested in fee in the county acquiring and taking said land, property or materials.

(b) The court of common pleas shall, by rule, process or motion, require all said claimants to appear therein and may, by an issue framed between them to be tried by a jury or by a reference to a master or by such orders and decisions as shall appear to be just under all the circumstances of the case, determine the estates and interest of said claimants in said valuation money. Upon the final determination of such proceeding, the court shall direct said valuation money to be paid to the person or persons ascertained to be entitled thereto.