Brittain's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 57, Jan. T., 1905, by M. W. Brittain, purchaser, and W. C. Brittain, executor, from decree of O. C. Luzerne Co., No. 195, of 1903, setting aside executor’s sale of real estate in estate of Nathan T. Brittain. Petition to set aside executor’s sale of real estate. Before Freas, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
Nathan T. Brittain, by his will, proved April 14, 1903, directed a sale, either public or private, of two parcels of land, and a division of the proceeds, after payment of his debts, among his brothers and sisters in equal shares. On July 1, 1903, *146Willard C. Brittain, the executor, made a public sale of one parcel for $300 and of the other for $55.00 to M. W. Brittain. On July 30, 1903, he filed an account in the register’s office, charging himself with these moneys, and claiming, among other items, credit for two notes of the testator, payable to himself, one for $180.11,…
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