Bentley's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Yol. cxcvi — 32 Appeal, No. 309, Jan. T.,T899, by-Lizzie J. B. Waller, executrix, from decree of O. C. Lycoming Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in estate of Benjamin S. Bentley, deceased. Exceptions to report of J. L. Meredith, Esq., auditor. The facts appear by -the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
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Yol. cxcvi — 32 Appeal, No. 309, Jan. T.,T899, by-Lizzie J. B. Waller, executrix, from decree of O. C. Lycoming Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in estate of Benjamin S. Bentley, deceased. Exceptions to report of J. L. Meredith, Esq., auditor. The facts appear by -the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report. To preserve an estate from great loss the personal representatives may in good faith advance money and will be protected in such advancement, and the orphans’ court will see that they are reimbursed on settlement of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice'Mitchell,
Benjamin S. Bentley died in 1882, leaving an estate known *499to be heavily in debt, and subsequently shown to have been in fact insolvent. The principal debt was for the purchase money of land, which he had bought from one Kirby in 1878 giving for it a series of twenty bonds payable each year in succession with interest, and secured by a mortgage on the land, with a clause that the whole should become due on default of any of the annual payments. The price was beyond the market value, but was paid upon Bentley’s expectation of a rise in value from special…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Rittenhouse v. LeveringSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
- M'Curdy's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
- Merkel's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Estate of KuhlmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Estate of MustinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Mellon EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
- Donnelly's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
- Reel's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
- Gibson EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
- Krick's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
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