Moore's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
From the Common Pleas of Dauphin. In 1806, Frey, by his will, devised his estate, real and personal, to trustees, for the erection and maintaining of an orphans’ house, in which orphan children were to be maintained and educated free from charge to their parents. The will' contained full and detailed directions respecting the management of the school.
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From the Common Pleas of Dauphin. In 1806, Frey, by his will, devised his estate, real and personal, to trustees, for the erection and maintaining of an orphans’ house, in which orphan children were to be maintained and educated free from charge to their parents. The will' contained full and detailed directions respecting the management of the school. Among other things, it provided that the trustees should annually submit a statement of their accounts to the Grand Jury and'Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county, and he directed a charter to be applied for. In 1839, the institution was…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.
We agree with the Court of Common Pleas, that we must limit our inquiries to the account filed the 21st November, 1848, and, consequently, we are precluded from going behind the confirmation of the last account. The exceptions were filed to that account, and to that alone does the investigation extend. None of the evidence taken by the auditor is relevant to the ease in hand, except that part of it which bears on the imputed mismanagement of the estate during the time embraced in the last period. The settlements were properly made, each and every year, and, when confirmed, were definitive…
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