Appeal of Biles
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FROM THE DECREE OF THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 175 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct. On August 8,1887, upon the petition of Pamela J. Biles, Sarah F. Spencer, Amos T. Biles, Charles C. Biles and Annie M. Biles, children and heirs at law of Samuel Biles, deceased, of New London township, an inquest was awarded for the partition of the real estate of said deceased, a return thereof filed, and on October 31, 1887, the three purparts were severally decreed to the heirs…
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FROM THE DECREE OF THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 175 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct. On August 8,1887, upon the petition of Pamela J. Biles, Sarah F. Spencer, Amos T. Biles, Charles C. Biles and Annie M. Biles, children and heirs at law of Samuel Biles, deceased, of New London township, an inquest was awarded for the partition of the real estate of said deceased, a return thereof filed, and on October 31, 1887, the three purparts were severally decreed to the heirs interested accepting the same. In the decree allotting the purparts was the following: And the court do further tax the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark:. Tbe only error assigned in this case is, that the Orphans’ Courttaxed with tbe costs and awarded to R. S. Waddell, Esq., attorney for John P. Biles, tbe sum of seventy-five dollars, as an allowance for counsel fees. Prior to the passage of tbe act of April 27,1864, tbe burden of compensating counsel for conducting proceedings in partition was borne in the Orphans’ Court, by tbe petitioner, and in tbe Common Pleas, by the plaintiff; and, as the result of the action was alike beneficial to all tbe parties, it was deemed advisable to equalize tbe burden.
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