Gossner's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the matter of the estate of Joseph Gossner, deceased. The circumstances appeared to be as follows, Joseph Gossner died intestate in the year 1830, leaving a widow, who administered, and two children, Joseph Gossner and Amanda Gossner; the latter of whom died, in 1833, an infant.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the matter of the estate of Joseph Gossner, deceased. The circumstances appeared to be as follows, Joseph Gossner died intestate in the year 1830, leaving a widow, who administered, and two children, Joseph Gossner and Amanda Gossner; the latter of whom died, in 1833, an infant. On the 15th of July, 1831, the administratrix settled her account; showing a balance due to the estate of $1795 64. On the 19th of April, 1839, Joseph Gossner, the son, applied for the appointment of an auditor, which…
1Per curiam
There is no substance in these exceptions. It has not been shown that any rule of the Orphans’ Court required notice to be given of the filing of the report. The counsel, or the party, is to look to it; and the appellant’s sickness did not make her case an exception. Then as to the maintenance. An auditor’s-deductions of fact, are to stand for the truth where there are no evident misconceptions of the evidence; and we are, therefore, to assume that the appellee rendered the services of an apprentice de facto to the appellant, his mother; and it would be unjust to suffer her, having received…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Cummings v. CummingsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1839
- United States v. MertzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1834
3Cited by1 opinion
- Withers' AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1850