Horton's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Susquehanna county: Of January Term 1880, No. 267. Appeal of Harriet Horton from the decree of the court in the matter of the guardianship account of Henry W. Wheaton. Wheaton was the guardian of the appellant, and filed his final account February 26th 1874. Among the exceptions of the Avard was ohe to an item of credit for $825 claimed by Wheaton for the hoard of his Avard for two hundred and sixty weeks.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Susquehanna county: Of January Term 1880, No. 267. Appeal of Harriet Horton from the decree of the court in the matter of the guardianship account of Henry W. Wheaton. Wheaton was the guardian of the appellant, and filed his final account February 26th 1874. Among the exceptions of the Avard was ohe to an item of credit for $825 claimed by Wheaton for the hoard of his Avard for two hundred and sixty weeks. The account was referred to an auditor, A. W. Bertholf, Esq., from whose report it appeared that the appellant was a niece of Wheaton’s wife, and went to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The auditor found that the appellant is a relative by marriage of her guardian, the appellee, being a niece by blood of his wife, and that she lived with her said guardian as one of his family ; that she worked therein, and was boarded, clothed and schooled as one of his own children; that she was generally strong and healthy, and able to perform a reasonable amount of labor; that *64the guardian never applied for and obtained an order of court for an allowance for the support of the ward, nor does the evidence show that the guardian made any charge on his books for the support of his ward…
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