Estates of Spath
Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Northumberland County
No. 401 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not shown. On May 31,1888, Catharine Woomer, and Catharine Miller, children of Frederick Spath, deceased, both having become of age, filed exceptions to the several accounts of their guardian, J. W. Fryling, filed August 3, 1875, March 16, 1878, and April 7, 1888, respectively, the first two accounts having been filed during the exceptants’ minority.
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No. 401 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not shown. On May 31,1888, Catharine Woomer, and Catharine Miller, children of Frederick Spath, deceased, both having become of age, filed exceptions to the several accounts of their guardian, J. W. Fryling, filed August 3, 1875, March 16, 1878, and April 7, 1888, respectively, the first two accounts having been filed during the exceptants’ minority. Thereupon, on June 12, 1888, on motion the court appointed Mr. O. B. Bitner auditor, to pass upon the exceptions and re-state the accounts. Exceptions to the report of the auditor…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Justice Geeen :
First assignment of error: The auditor distinctly allowed the item of $276.82, not as commissions or compensation for the care of the money of the wards, but for the personal services of the guardian in caring for the wards during the whole period of the trust. As this extended from May, 1867, to 1884 *390as to one of the wards, and to 1887 for the other, and there were two wards instead of one, the amount allowed would represent an annual sum of about fifteen dollars for the two, or seven dollars and a half for each. The auditor especially-found that the mother of the…
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