Sherwood's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 176, Jan. T., 1902, by-Robert H. Sherwood, from decree of O. C. Bucks County, dismissing bill of review in estate of Isabella H. Sherwood, deceased. Petition for bill of review.
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Appeal, No. 176, Jan. T., 1902, by-Robert H. Sherwood, from decree of O. C. Bucks County, dismissing bill of review in estate of Isabella H. Sherwood, deceased. Petition for bill of review. Yebkes, P. J., filed an opinion in which he stated the facts to be as follows: The-register of wills granted letters of administration upon the estate of Isabella H. Sherwood to Hon. B. F. Gilkeson in March, 1900. The following February Mr. Gilkeson filed his account and schedule of distribution. The heirs of Isabella H. Sherwood, if all living, are Henry F. Sherwood, Robert H. Sherwood and Catherine S.…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The account which is appealed from contained an explicit item of distribution to the administrator of the estate of Henry F. Sherwood, which is now claimed to be error. To this account the appellant, together with the only other distributee except Henry Sherwood’s administrator, appended a formal statement under seal that he had examined the account and prayed the court to confirm it absolutely as stated. It thus appears that he was instrumental in inducing the court to mate the very decree of which he now complains. He has estopped himself from being heard to do so.
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