King v. Morrison
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster county, passing and confirming the administration account of Samuel,- administrator of James Morrison, deceased. James Morrison, died in December, 1810, seized of a large real, and possessed of considerable personal estate. In his lifetime he bad procured patents for his land, and executed to the State two mortgages for the purchase money, &e.
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This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster county, passing and confirming the administration account of Samuel,- administrator of James Morrison, deceased. James Morrison, died in December, 1810, seized of a large real, and possessed of considerable personal estate. In his lifetime he bad procured patents for his land, and executed to the State two mortgages for the purchase money, &e. Administration on his estate was committed to his widow, Eleanor, and his eldest son, Samuel, the appellant, (who survived his mother,) in March, 1811. An inventory of the personal…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
(who recapitulated the facts of the case.) — 1. The first exception is that the accountants claimed, and were allowed, a credit of one thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-five cents, for patenting the land of the deceased. An act of assembly, passed in 1785, had allowed those persons whose lands were unpatented, to obtain a patent, on giving to the State a mortgage for the purchase money remaining due. James Morrison, in his lifetime, had, under this law, taken patents for his land, and given two mortgages to the…
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