Peters's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Luzerne county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 385. This was an appeal by Philip Peters from a decree of said court dismissing his exceptions to the report of audit and distribution in the matter of his account as administrator of the estate of his father John Peters, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Luzerne county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 385. This was an appeal by Philip Peters from a decree of said court dismissing his exceptions to the report of audit and distribution in the matter of his account as administrator of the estate of his father John Peters, deceased. At the audit Daniel Bloss administrator of the estate of Rebecca Peters, deceased, late wife of John Peters, claimed to be awarded the sums of $583.30, and $150, respectively with interest. The auditing judge found as follows:— The decedent, John Peters, died on the 4th day of June, 1881,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
Stale claims against dead men’s estates should always be scrutinized. Especially so where the claim might have been brought against the decedent in his lifetime, but has been delayed until death has sealed his lips, and placed it beyond the power of his legal representatives to defend with a full knowledge of the facts.
The claims, the allowance of which forms the subject of the two assignments of error, belong to this class. One of them was allowed to sleep for over thirty years, and the other for about twenty-five years, before any one was called upon for payment.
*342The first claim was for the…
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