Watts's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 408, Jan. T., 1893, by-Edward B. Watts, executor of Frederick Watts, deceased, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., sustaining exceptions to adjudication. Adjudication of executor’s account.
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Appeal, No. 408, Jan. T., 1893, by-Edward B. Watts, executor of Frederick Watts, deceased, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., sustaining exceptions to adjudication. Adjudication of executor’s account. The auditor, E. M. Biddle, Jr., Esq., reported as follows: “ In August, 1871, Mrs. Susan Gilmore, by her next friend, filed three petitions in the orphans’ court praying for a citation against John C. Gilmore, as administrator respectively of Mary Cronon, Ellen Shea and Margaret Woods, deceased, commanding him to settle an account in each estate, or to show cause, etc., alleging inter alia…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The facts are so clearly and concisely stated by the learned judge of the orphans’ court that repetition of them is unnecessary.
The assignments of error, though four in number, are one in substance. They deny the jurisdiction of the orphans’ court in 1875 to adjudicate the balance of $538 against the decedent, in the proceedings against John C. Gilmore, administrator.
We are of the opinion that the court had jurisdiction. It was clearly shown that this balance of the fund was in Judge Watts’s hands; that while' Gilmore was nominally administrator, Judge Watts, in…
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