Smith
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 160, Oct. T., 1899, by George W. Smith, trustee of Levi Smith, relator, from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., Feb. T., 1888, No. 140, dismissing exceptions to master’s report. Petition to supersede and determine an inquisition in lunacy. Before Savidge, P. J. It appears that on November 23,1885, Levi Smith was found by verdict of a jury to be a lunatic.
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Appeal, No. 160, Oct. T., 1899, by George W. Smith, trustee of Levi Smith, relator, from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., Feb. T., 1888, No. 140, dismissing exceptions to master’s report. Petition to supersede and determine an inquisition in lunacy. Before Savidge, P. J. It appears that on November 23,1885, Levi Smith was found by verdict of a jury to be a lunatic. On May 7, 1897, he filed a petition asking to have the commission and inquisition thereupon superseded and determined, on which the court made an order referring the matter to W. H. Hackenburg to take testimony and report the…
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Orlady, J.,
Levi Smith was adjudged a lunatic February 6, 1883, upon an inquisition which was traversed, and after the verdict of a jury the proceedings were confirmed absolutely. No committee was appointed by the court to take charge of his person or estate. On May 7, 1897, Levi Smith presented his petition to the court of common pleas of Northumberland county, in which he set forth that he had “ become restored to his reason and is perfectly sane and desires that his incapacity to transact business for his support, and the stigma incident to being an adjudged lunatic be removed,”…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth ex rel. Euchenberg v. SchneiderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
3Cited by2 opinions
- Ryman's CaseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
- Payment by Commonwealth for Care of Feeble-Minded, Pennsylvania Department of Justice1935