Wills' Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county, setting aside an auditor’s report, and confirming the account of the guardians. William J. Wills, the appellant, was a son of John Wills, late of the city of Pittsburgh, deceased, who died in the year 1822, leaving a widow and three minor children, viz., John, Lawson, and William, and leaving considerable real and personal estate.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county, setting aside an auditor’s report, and confirming the account of the guardians. William J. Wills, the appellant, was a son of John Wills, late of the city of Pittsburgh, deceased, who died in the year 1822, leaving a widow and three minor children, viz., John, Lawson, and William, and leaving considerable real and personal estate. The widow was appointed the guardian of William, and continued to act as such until her decease, in 1831. In the fall of 1833, Jokn Hannen and Hugh Davis were appointed the guardians of the said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
Alexander Braekenridge was administrator of John Wills, deceased, and John Hannen and Hugh . Davis were guardians of the minor children, John and William. The guardians permitted the administrator to receive the rents of the real estate from 1833, when they were first appointed, up to 1841, when they made a settlement with, and took a'judgment from him, for the amount of those rents, and a balance due on his administration account, confirmed in 1832, In ,1843, the guardians took from Braekenridge a conveyance of certain real property for…
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