Eyster's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL from the decree of the register’s court of York county, confirming the decree of the register granting letters of administration to Andrew Flickinger, with the will of Daniel Eyster deceased. On the 13th of September 1798, Daniel Eyster, the testator, died at his residence on. a farm situate in township, Adams county, then a part of York county. On the 17th of September 1798, a caveat was entered against the probate of his will.
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APPEAL from the decree of the register’s court of York county, confirming the decree of the register granting letters of administration to Andrew Flickinger, with the will of Daniel Eyster deceased. On the 13th of September 1798, Daniel Eyster, the testator, died at his residence on. a farm situate in township, Adams county, then a part of York county. On the 17th of September 1798, a caveat was entered against the probate of his will. On the 4th of October 1798, the register of York county directed an issue of devisavit vel non, to the court of common pleas, and granted letters of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
In England the administration of a decedent’s effects belongs to'the chief executive magistrate as the parens patrise; and derivatively to the archbishops and diocesans deputed by him, with jurisdiction restricted respectively to the province or diocess, and determinable by the situs of the assets. The existence of bona notabilia in more than one diocess, requires administration to be-granted by the archbishop as the common ecclesiastical superior of the diocesans, and when in each of-the two archiepiscopal provinces, it requires a…
2Cited by1 opinion
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