Morrison's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 485, Jan. T., 1896, by People’s Trust, Savings and Deposit Company, guardian, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., directing payment to ward without entry of security. Rule to compel guardian to pay over money to ward. An outline of tbe facts of this case is given in the opinion of the Supremo Court.
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Appeal, No. 485, Jan. T., 1896, by People’s Trust, Savings and Deposit Company, guardian, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., directing payment to ward without entry of security. Rule to compel guardian to pay over money to ward. An outline of tbe facts of this case is given in the opinion of the Supremo Court. The petition of George Morrison, the only child of Cassius W. Morrison, deceased, or presumed to be deceased, and the answer will be found at length in the opinion of the orphans’ court, Brubaker, J., as follows: This is a rule on the guardian of George Morrison, the only child of said…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Williams,
This appeal presents a record that is by no means a satisfactory one. Letters of administration were issued upon the estate of C. W. Morrison in November, 1891, under an order of the orphans’ court of Lancaster county which were based on an adjudication by that court that a legal presumption of the death of Morrison had been established under the proceedings authorized by the act of June 24, 1885. Some of the evidence upon which the adjudication was made is furnished to us in the paper books, and it presents the following facts: The alleged decedent, C. W.…
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