Shunk v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from tbe Common Pleas of York. Dill having been declared a lunatic, the present defendant, with O’llail, now deceased, who was appointed his committee, gave a bond to the former governor of the Commonwealth, with a condition mentioned by Mr. J. Burnside in the opinion of, the court in this case.
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In error from tbe Common Pleas of York. Dill having been declared a lunatic, the present defendant, with O’llail, now deceased, who was appointed his committee, gave a bond to the former governor of the Commonwealth, with a condition mentioned by Mr. J. Burnside in the opinion of, the court in this case. The defendant having been removed by the court, Porter was appointed in his stead, who brought an action on the bond, to his own use, in the name of the present governor, as successor of a former governor, the obligee in the bond. The breaches assigned were, a wasting of the property of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnside, J.
The bond offered in evidence in this case, and rejected by the court, was given in pursuance of the 15th section of the act of 13th of June, 1836, which provides that, “ before any person appointed committee of the estate of a lunatic, or of an habitual drunkard, shall perform any act as such, he shall give security in such sum as the court shall direct,'with condition for the faithful performance of the said trust, and duly to account according to law for all property and funds that may come into his hands;” Dunlop, 664. ,
Dill had been duly declared a lunatic, and O’Hail was appointed his…
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