Chew's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by Henry B. Chew, one of the residuary legatees and surviving executor .of the last will of Benjamin Chew, deceased, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court confirming the report of the auditor on the account of said Henry B. Chew and James M. Mason, executors of the last will and testament of B. Chew, deceased.
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Appeal from tbe Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by Henry B. Chew, one of the residuary legatees and surviving executor .of the last will of Benjamin Chew, deceased, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court confirming the report of the auditor on the account of said Henry B. Chew and James M. Mason, executors of the last will and testament of B. Chew, deceased. The testator died on the 30th of April, A. D. 1844, having made a will and codicils disposing of a very large amount of real and personal property, in and by which he appointed his. wife, Mrs. Katherine Chew, his sons,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
THOMPSON, J.
This appeal presents but two questions, although the specifications of error are more numerous. The first of these is whether the court erred in confirming the auditors’ report, finding that the appellee, B. Chew, was a creditor of *230the estate in the sum of $1110.62, and in reporting that amount in his favour.
The finding of auditors is always entitled to great consideration, and is conclusive until error is shown to exist, and when that is done, like all other judicial proceedings, it is subject to correction. I have very carefully…
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