Kyler's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 69, Oct. T., 1920, by executor, from decree of O, 0. Huntingdon County, No. 173, 1920, awarding a citation on Seigel Ashman, executor, in re Estate of Ralph Kyler, deceased. Citation on Seigel Ashman, executor, to present petition to open judgment No. 34, December Term, 1917, in the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County. Before Bailey, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 69, Oct. T., 1920, by executor, from decree of O, 0. Huntingdon County, No. 173, 1920, awarding a citation on Seigel Ashman, executor, in re Estate of Ralph Kyler, deceased. Citation on Seigel Ashman, executor, to present petition to open judgment No. 34, December Term, 1917, in the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County. Before Bailey, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court issued a decree ordering Seigel Ashman, executor of Ralph Kyler, deceased, to present his petition to the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County to open judgment No.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Linn, J.,
In the Quarter Sessions of Huntingdon County Ralph Kyler pleaded guilty to a charge of fornication and bastardy in 1883 and was sentenced to pay a fine, costs of prosecution, lying-in expenses and a sum weekly, the order resulting in a possible total liability of $394. The prosecutrix died in 1890. Kyler died in 1916, testate, and letters testamentary were granted to Ashman, the appellant. In 1917 appellant’s attorney suggested Kyler’s death on the record of his prosecution and substituted his executor Ashman.
On the same day appellant’s attorney caused the order and…
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- Commonwealth ex rel. Bruce v. MoranSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916
- Estate of ClaghornSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Commonwealth v. MoranSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
- Wick's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
- Beck v. FinnefrockSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
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