Young's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court • of Lehigh county: No. 413, of January Term 1870: In the distribution of' the estate of John Young, deceased. The decedent died in August 1865. William H. Newhard, his executor, having settled his account, Thomas B. Metzgar, Esq., was appointed auditor to make distribution.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court • of Lehigh county: No. 413, of January Term 1870: In the distribution of' the estate of John Young, deceased. The decedent died in August 1865. William H. Newhard, his executor, having settled his account, Thomas B. Metzgar, Esq., was appointed auditor to make distribution. Sarah Young, the widow of the decedent, claimed to receive from the estate the sum of $3047.75, her share of the estate of her father, John A. Wieder, deceased, which she alleged her husband, John Young, had received. From ¡'the testimony before the auditor it appeared that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 5th 1870, by
Thompson, C. J.
The auditor, in this case, found that Mrs. Young’s share in her father’s estate was actually received by her husband from the executors of that estate in her presence, partly in cash and partly in obligations on third parties, and that his (the husband’s estate) is debtor to her for the amount.
The finding was excepted to by Mrs. Miller and husband, the appellants, the former being a daughter of the decedent, on the ground of the insufficiency of proof to charge the estate so far ■as the cash was concerned. The auditor’s…
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