Rebecca Walls' Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Huntingdon county: Of July Term 1883, No. 69. This was an appeal by Mrs. Rebecca Walls, née Harmon, from a decree of said court refusing to order the filing of a final account by Benedict Stevens, who had been her guardian during her minority.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Huntingdon county: Of July Term 1883, No. 69. This was an appeal by Mrs. Rebecca Walls, née Harmon, from a decree of said court refusing to order the filing of a final account by Benedict Stevens, who had been her guardian during her minority. The record showed the following: On April 11th 1881, Rebecca Walls, formerly Rebecca Harmon, filed her petition in the Orphans’ Court, setting forth that her father, Frederick Harmon, died intestate July 1st 1852, leaving surviving him a widow and eight children, of whom the petitioner, the youngest, was a minor (born…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The ninth section of the Act of 29th March 1832, Pur. Dig. 413, pl. 41, requires that “ every guardian shall, within thirty days'after any property of his ward shall come into his hands or possession, or into the hands or possession of any person for him, file in the office of the clerk of the Orphans’ Court, a just and true inventory and statement, on oath or affirmation, of all such property or estate.”
The tenth section of the same Act provides that “ every such guardian, whether required by the court to give security or not, shall, at least once in every three years, and at every other…
2Cited by3 opinions
- Giese's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
- Peters's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
- Warwick's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Montgomery County · 1939