Vandever v. Baker
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Chester County. This was an amicable action entered into in the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county, in favor of Thomas Yandever, administrator, etc., of Phineas Baker, deceased, plaintiff in error, vs. Evan Baker, defendant in error. In 1843, Phineas Baker died intestate, leaving a widow and two minor children. Thomas Yandever administered.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Chester County. This was an amicable action entered into in the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county, in favor of Thomas Yandever, administrator, etc., of Phineas Baker, deceased, plaintiff in error, vs. Evan Baker, defendant in error. In 1843, Phineas Baker died intestate, leaving a widow and two minor children. Thomas Yandever administered. At the August Sessions, 1848, of the Orphans’ Court, he applied for an order of sale to sell the real estate of the deceased for the payment of his debts. The real estate consisted of an undivided moiety of a farm in West…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Coulter, J.
The record of the Orphans’ Court was in evidence by the plaintiff, from which it appeared that he applied for an order of sale of the real estate of the decedent, for the payment of debts, &c; that the court appointed an auditor who, after investigating the facts, reported in favor of the sale; whereupon the court decreed a sale by the administrator, who reported that he sold the land described in the order, to Evan Baker, the defend*125ant, for $6,740, being at the rate of $70 per acre. The whole tract of land containing one hundred and…
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