Estate of Worthington
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 37, Jan. T., 1898, by Charity P. Worthington, from decree of O. C. Luzerne Co., No. 177, of 1880, dismissing petition praying for an accounting in the estate of Henry Worthington, deceased. Petitionfor accounting by administratrix.
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Appeal, No. 37, Jan. T., 1898, by Charity P. Worthington, from decree of O. C. Luzerne Co., No. 177, of 1880, dismissing petition praying for an accounting in the estate of Henry Worthington, deceased. Petitionfor accounting by administratrix. Before Darte, P. J. Charity P. Worthington filed a petition as the executrix and devisee of William Worthington, deceased, who was the son and heir of Henry Worthington, deceased, who died intestate in 1880, setting out that Alice Worthington, his widow, as administratrix, had never accounted, and praying for citation. The administratrix filed an…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The orphans’ court is a court of equity within the limited sphere of its operations, and the proceedings should have the substance of equitable form, though not its technical nicety. The proper mode of proceeding in that court is by petition, answer, replication, etc., in which the substantial requisites making the case should appear: Steffy’s Appeal, 76 Pa. 94. A replication in equity is the plaintiff’s answer or reply to the defendant’s plea or answer. If it be a general denial of the truth of the plea or answer, and an assertion of the truth and sufficiency of the bill, matter…
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- Steffy & Skimp's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1874
- Hengst's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1855
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