Parshall's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Warren county: In the estate of Robert H. Henry, deceased. No. 338, to January Term 1870. Henry, the decedent, in his lifetime, owned a tract of land in Deerfield township, Warren county, containing about 365 acres.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Warren county: In the estate of Robert H. Henry, deceased. No. 338, to January Term 1870. Henry, the decedent, in his lifetime, owned a tract of land in Deerfield township, Warren county, containing about 365 acres. To December Term 1859 Samuel Grrandin recovered a judgment against him for $479.45. On the 11th of February 1860, Henry entered into an agreement that R. J. Brown should have the exclusive right to hore for oil on the whole tract, rendering to Henry one-twelfth of the oil. Henry died before February 1864, probably in the fall of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 5th 1870, by
Sharswood, J.
A careful examination of the evidence attached to this record has not satisfied us that any plain mistake was committed by the auditor and the court below in the conclusions of fact at which they arrived. The mode suggested in the argument of the counsel of the appellant for apportioning the amount produced by the sale of the three items of property — the farm belonging to the heirs of Henry — and the Cleland tract and refinery belonging to the accountant, — which he sold together, is certainly ingenious, but there is…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fisk v. SarberSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
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- Rich v. Black & BairdSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896