Appeal of Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FROM THE DECREE OE THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 17 July Term 1887, Sup. Ct. On January 4, 1886, Joseph. T. Williams filed his account as guardian of seven minor children of Charles Williams, charging himself with receipts of cash from the executors of the will of Joseph Williams, Sr., deceased, aggregating $70,430.32, and taking credit inter alia with “commissions due accountant, $3,521.52.”- To this account exceptions were filed.
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FROM THE DECREE OE THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 17 July Term 1887, Sup. Ct. On January 4, 1886, Joseph. T. Williams filed his account as guardian of seven minor children of Charles Williams, charging himself with receipts of cash from the executors of the will of Joseph Williams, Sr., deceased, aggregating $70,430.32, and taking credit inter alia with “commissions due accountant, $3,521.52.”- To this account exceptions were filed. Before Mr. Jacob V. G-otwalts, appointed auditor to hear and determine the exceptions and report distribution, it was made to appear that the minor…
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Mr. Justice Williams :
This ease involves but a single question. The appellant was duly appointed guardian of the minor children of Charles Williams by the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county on June 15, 1863. His wards were legatees under the will of their grandfather, Joseph Williams, and entitled as such to sums amounting in the aggregate to over 170,000. Their father, Charles Williams, was one of the executors of the will of Joseph. As father of the legatees and executor of the will under the provisions of which the legacies were to be paid, he was, under the law and the rules of…
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