Anna M. F. Spier's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia. This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia, confirming the report of an auditor, distributing the amount in the hands of H. G. Jones, Esq., administrator of the estate of William Spier, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia. This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia, confirming the report of an auditor, distributing the amount in the hands of H. G. Jones, Esq., administrator of the estate of William Spier, deceased. The intestate died at Philadelphia on the 10th day of June, 1853. He left a widow, Anna M. F. Spier, surviving him, who at the time of his death, was living in the city of Gottingen, in the kingdom of Hanover. Spier had been in this country about five years. A short time before his death, he had written to her to join him…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Knox, J.
We entirely concur in the reasons given by the president of the Orphans’ Court, for confirming the auditor’s report of distribution in this case.
The language of the Act of 1851 is inconsistent with the claim of the widow, and we see no error in allowing to Mrs. Saekriter the amount found to be her due, by the auditor.
Decree affirmed at the costs .of the appellant.
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