Commonwealth v. Reeves
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY JEMIMA MOSES FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 5 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given.
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APPEAL BY JEMIMA MOSES FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 5 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On January 27, 1890, Jemima Moses presented her petition, supported by the usual affidavits, averring that she was the daughter of Sarah Ann Reeves, who was, and for one year-past and upwards had been, so far deprived of her reason and understanding that she was rendered altogether unfit and unable to govern herself or to manage her affairs, praying for a commission in the nature of a writ de lunático inquirendo, etc. A commissioner having been…
1Per curiam
The court below set aside the return to the commission because the inquisition did not find the alleged lunatic to be of unsound mind. This is what they did find: “ That, although they do not find the said Sarah Ann Reeves a lunatic, in the general acceptation of that term, they, by reason of her age, ignorance, and the feeble condition of her mind and body, *261deem her unfit to manage her estate judiciously, and to have been in that condition for a year last past, and would recommend that the Honorable Court of Chester county appoint a proper person, as committee, to take charge of and account…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re WeaverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1887
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