Appeal of McCann
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Gourt of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by Catherine E. McCann, a minor over the age of fourteen years, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, refusing to permit her to choose a guardian.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Gourt of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by Catherine E. McCann, a minor over the age of fourteen years, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, refusing to permit her to choose a guardian. On the 13th of October 1864, the petition of Catherine E. Mc-Cann was filed in the Orphans’ Court, setting forth that she was seventeen years of age, was the inheritrix of an estate amounting to between $15,000 and $20,000, then and now in the custody of John B. Colahan, Esq., who was appointed her guardian on the 15th of September, A. D. 1854, she then being seven years of age.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
The appellant, a young lady of seventeen years of age, with an estate of fifteen thousand’ dollars and upwards, petitioned the Orphans’ Court for leave to ch'oose a guardian, and nominated a gentleman who is described in the accompanying affidavit as a person of entire fitness for the trust.
The matter was heard by the Orphans’ Court, and the petition refused; whereupon this appeal was taken.
The 5th section of the Act of March 29th 1832, Purd. 278, commits the care of the persons and estates of minors to the Orphans’ Court of the county…
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