Stokely's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Washington county, in the matter of the account of Samuel Stokely, surviving administrator of the estate of Thomas Stokely, deceased. Col. Thomas Stokely died in July, 1824, in Washington county, where he resided, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, a son, Samuel, the accountant, and three daughters, one of whom, Ann, then unmarried, and afterwards intermarried with John H. Miller, the appellant.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Washington county, in the matter of the account of Samuel Stokely, surviving administrator of the estate of Thomas Stokely, deceased. Col. Thomas Stokely died in July, 1824, in Washington county, where he resided, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, a son, Samuel, the accountant, and three daughters, one of whom, Ann, then unmarried, and afterwards intermarried with John H. Miller, the appellant. Letters of administration on his estate were granted in 1824 by the register of Washington county, to his widow and his son. The widow and the unmarried…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, 0. J.
The appellee took letters of administration on the estate of his father in Pennsylvania and in Delaware. The place of the intestate’s domicil was here. He received in Delaware assets amounting to $1197.72. One question in this cause is, whether he must account in Pennsylvania for the sum received abroad, or whether the distributees must first compel him to settle his account there.
Personal property has no situs in contemplation of law. It is attached to the owner’s person wherever he is, and when he dies it descends according to the law of…
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