Griel's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 347, Jan. T., 1895, by I. N. S. Will, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1895, No. 22, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report.
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Appeal, No. 347, Jan. T., 1895, by I. N. S. Will, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1895, No. 22, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The auditor, William Leaman, Esq., reported in part, as follows : I. N. S. Will, late clerk of orphans’ court, presented bill for costs in proceedings for sale of real estate, consisting of eighty purparts, $240. On the 29th day of September, 1891, the said executors presented a petition to your honorable court, praying for an order to sell the real estate of the decedent for'the payment of debts. This petition…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
This appeal involves the construction of section 8 of the act of February 22,1821, P. L. 57, prescribing, inter alia, that “the fees to be received by the clerk of the orphans’ court shall be as follows: . . . . All proceedings for the sale of real estate, recognizance or confirmation, recording and copy, three dollars.”
The facts, so far as they are material, are sufficiently set forth *416in the report of the learned auditor and need not be restated. He found that, under the original and subsequent orders of sale, eighty-three distinct parcels of land were…
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