Geddis's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL by William Geddis, executor of Robert Geddis, who was the administrator of John Sawyer, deceased, from the decree of the orphans’ court of Dauphin county. By the decree, Robert Geddis was charged with the sum of 637 dollars and 34 cents, with interest; and a credit claimed by him, of the sum of 685 dollars and 71 cents, was struck out.
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APPEAL by William Geddis, executor of Robert Geddis, who was the administrator of John Sawyer, deceased, from the decree of the orphans’ court of Dauphin county. By the decree, Robert Geddis was charged with the sum of 637 dollars and 34 cents, with interest; and a credit claimed by him, of the sum of 685 dollars and 71 cents, was struck out. John Sawyer the elder died, leaving a will, appointing Robert Geddis his executor, who proved the will in the usual mode, and took out letters testamentary, and entered upon the administration of the assets. The testator left a number of children,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
It is clear that the estate of Robert Geddis should be charged with the 637 dollars and 24 cents: it being proved that he received that amount in a note given by John Sawyer, Jun., to John Boal, which Boal passed over to Geddis in exchange for two notes which R. Geddis, in right of J. Sawyer, the elder, had against Boal. It would seem that Geddis employed this note of J. Sawyer, Jun., in paying off the 685 dollars and 71 cents; and he thus used the assets of J. Sawyer’s, the elder’s, estate to pay this money. And the question is, whether he…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Koppenhaffer v. IsaacsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
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