Case of Bonsall's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, on the exceptions filed to the report of the auditor on the account of John Bonsall, guardian of Hannah Hughes.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, on the exceptions filed to the report of the auditor on the account of John Bonsall, guardian of Hannah Hughes. The auditor having reported a balance of one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty and a half cents against the guardian, he filed the following exceptions to the report: Exception 1st.—That the auditor has charged the said guardian with the sum of five hundred and ninety dollars and ninety cents, (less one hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-seven cents, set apart as the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court.was delivered by
Huston, J.
The facts in this case, and there was no dispute or contrariety of testimony, were as follows:—Thomas Hughes died, leaving nine children, six by .a former wife and three by a second wife: of the six, one died after the sale hereafter mentioned, aged eight or nine years. •
*273On a petition by the administrators, the Orphans’ Court of Berks county, granted an order to sell lands, to pay debts and maintain the children. A tract of seventy-three acres had been exposed’to sale, and ninety-nine dollars per acre bid for it by one JLllison. The…
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