Daly's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 277, Oct. T., 1912, by Charles S. Bair, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1911, No. 484, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of James A. Daly, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Errors assigned among others was decree dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
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Appeal, No. 277, Oct. T., 1912, by Charles S. Bair, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1911, No. 484, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of James A. Daly, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Errors assigned among others was decree dismissing exceptions to adjudication. The proposition of law is well settled, that upon proper proof of loss, the contents of a lost paper, whether a private letter, an official paper, or a paper filed in a judicial proceeding, may be proved by parol: Lewis v. Manly, 2 Yeates, 200; Armstrong…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Morrison, J.,
The learned auditing judge refused to allow the appellant’s claim of $510.30 for the funeral expenses of Charles E. Daly and Thomas H. Daly, brothers of James A. Daly, the decedent. The appellant filed several exceptions to the adjudication which, after argument, the court dismissed and confirmed the adjudication. This ruling was based largely on the fact found by the auditing judge that the appellant had charged the funeral expenses of Charles E. Daly and Thomas H. Daly to Catherine N. Daly, their mother, and at a later date appellant’s bookkeeper had written the name…
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