Commonwealth v. Moltz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from the Common Pleas of Cumberland. So far as the facts could be gathered from the paper-book, it would seem that the case was this: The action was brought against the administrators of Moltz, on their official bond. He had been the guardian of the plaintiff’s wife. Within three months after she came of age, she gave him a receipt for $728.10 in full, as guardian.
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In error from the Common Pleas of Cumberland. So far as the facts could be gathered from the paper-book, it would seem that the case was this: The action was brought against the administrators of Moltz, on their official bond. He had been the guardian of the plaintiff’s wife. Within three months after she came of age, she gave him a receipt for $728.10 in full, as guardian. He died in 1838, and the defendants settled their accounts as administrators, and distributed the estate without taking refunding bonds. The ward married in 1842. In 1844, to a petition to settle a guardianship account,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bell,. J.
A guardianship account has been settled, against the representatives of the deceased guardian, under the authority and direction of the proper tribunal. The auditors appointed for the purpose, after a full hearing of both parties, reported there was due from the estate of the late guardian, to his ward, the sum of f>l,972.19, after allowing the guardian a credit for the receipt of June 8, 1835. The account, thus reported, was confirmed by the court on the 12th of December, 1845. This act of confirmation is equivalent to a decree, that the sum ascertained by the auditors, was due and…
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