Milligan's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 277. These were proceedings begun in the court below by Mary E. Milligan (formerly Agnew) and her husband, for a review of the account of Dr. James Carothers, her former guardian.
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Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 277. These were proceedings begun in the court below by Mary E. Milligan (formerly Agnew) and her husband, for a review of the account of Dr. James Carothers, her former guardian. The grounds upon which the review was asked were these: (1) Because the guardian, in the partition of certain real estate in which his ward and his wife were equally interested, had elected to take real estate for his wife (which afterwards proved to be very valuable) and had taken his ward’s share of the estate in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This was an application for the review of a guardianship account duly confirmed by the Orphans’ Court.
In September 1866 - Dr. James Carothers filed his account as guardian of Mary E. Agnew (now Milligan), the appellant. At the next December Term it was ■ duly confirmed. In April of the next year, Dr. Carothers died. Some three months thereafter the appellant married. On the 28th of December following, the appellant presented her first petition, asking for a review of the account. She followed this with three supplemental petitions, the last in April 1871.
*394The substantial grounds of complaint…
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