Good v. Good
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. The president of the orphan’s court for the use of Joseph Good against John Good with notice to Christian Good terre-tenant..
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ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. The president of the orphan’s court for the use of Joseph Good against John Good with notice to Christian Good terre-tenant.. Peter Good died intestate, seised of certain real estate, and, in a proceeding in the orphan’s court, under the intestate laws, on the 24th of September 1792, the same was taken by John Good the defendant at the valuation, upon his entering into a recognizance for the payment of the interest of the widow and shares of the other heirs. Upon this recognizance this action of debt was brought by Joseph Good to recover the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The two first errors and the last, that is, the thirteenth, will be considered in immediate connexion with each other, as two of them present nearly the same question, and each contains *197a proposition, which, if true, would go to defeat the plaintiff’s right below to maintain this action.
The propositions relied on by the counsel for the plaintiff in error in regard to these errors are: First, That no action can be sustained upon the recognizance for the recovery of the arrearages of interest which became payable to the widow, under the decree…
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