Estate of Grindrod
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY O. A. B. DEMPSTER FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 245 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct., court below, number and term not given.
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APPEAL BY O. A. B. DEMPSTER FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 245 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct., court below, number and term not given. On June 2,1890, Ormrod A. B. Dempster presented a petition, which, as subsequently amended, set forth, in substance: That lie was a grandson of John Grindrod, deceased, his mother, Agnes Dempster, was a daughter of said John Grind-rod, and Mary Grindrod, bis grandmother and tbe widow of said John Grindrod, had recently died; that under tbe will of said John Grindrod, deceased, dated January 13, 1871, and duly admitted to probate, it was…
1Per curiam
The appellant filed his petition in the court below, praying the court to open the decree of confirmation of the sale of certain real estate, and to set the said sale aside. The real estate in question was sold in 1880, under the act of 1853, known as the Price act. The ground of the application was that the petitioner was a minor at the time of the sale, and had no notice of the proceedings. It appears that the appeliant had only a contingent interest in the property at that time, and that the object of the sale — an object expressly authorized by the act of 1853 — was to bar contingent…
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