Hoch's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Berks county. This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of said county, in the matter of the auditor’s report on the account of Daniel W. Kistler, one of the executors of the will of George Adam Hower, deceased. The appeal was taken by Jacob Hock, one of the legatees under the will.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Berks county. This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of said county, in the matter of the auditor’s report on the account of Daniel W. Kistler, one of the executors of the will of George Adam Hower, deceased. The appeal was taken by Jacob Hock, one of the legatees under the will. The will of the testator is dated the 26th day of July, 1849. The testator died in the early part of August, 1849. Daniel W. Kistler was one of the executors of said will, and as such settled his account. In his account he claimed a credit for $507.50,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Knox, J.
— Kistler, executor of Hower, filed his account in the Orphans’ Court of Berks county, in which he claimed a credit for $507.50, paid by him on the 25th Aug. 1849, to German.
The account was referred to an auditor, who allowed the credit, and the Court below overruled an exception to such allowance, from which decision Hoeh, one of the legatees under the will appeals to this Court.
The evidence taken before the auditor, and reported by him, clearly establishes the fact that the money was loaned by German to Kistler, and by Kistler to Hower.…
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