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Estate of Galloway

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 23, 1897No. Appeal, No. 166PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal, No. 166, April Term, 1897,' by Anna M. Galloway, from decree of O. C. Fayette Co., March T., 1894, No. 43, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report and decreeing distribution. Exceptions to auditor’s report.

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Appeal, No. 166, April Term, 1897,' by Anna M. Galloway, from decree of O. C. Fayette Co., March T., 1894, No. 43, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report and decreeing distribution. Exceptions to auditor’s report. Before Ewestg, P. J. It appeared from the record that decedent died April 21, 1891. On January 29, 1894, the accountant, in response to a. citation, filed a partial account and filed an inventory of the personal property on January 17. Anna M. Galloway filed four exceptions to this account she seeking to surcharge the accountant with sundry items, amounting in all to $319.50. The…

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Smith, J.,

A partial account of an executor or administrator is not the mere inconclusive memoranda of the business transacted by the accountant. When regularly submitted, passed upon and confirmed by the orphans’ court, a partial account is final and conclusive with respect to all matters properly included in it, and its confirmation is an adjudication of all things embraced in it, with like effect as if it were a final account: Rhoads’s Appeal, 39 Pa. 186; Shindel’s Appeal, 57 Pa. 43; Appeal of Foss and Loomis, 105 Pa. 258; Schaeffer’s Appeal, 119 Pa. 640. A partial account is only…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Appeal of FrossSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1884
  2. Appeal of SchaefferSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
  3. Sawtelle's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1877
  4. Bull's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1855
  5. Shindel's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Comerford EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1957
  2. Estate of LowrySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  3. Beach's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
  4. Haag v. GoodSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
  5. Moore v. BischoffSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904

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