In re Lentz's Accounts
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. March 23. The administrators de bonis non of John Lentz, filed their accounts in May, 1845, charging themselves with the proceeds of the real estate of the decedent, which was sold under proceedings in partition.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. March 23. The administrators de bonis non of John Lentz, filed their accounts in May, 1845, charging themselves with the proceeds of the real estate of the decedent, which was sold under proceedings in partition. The question was,- their right to a credit on the 1st April, 1845, for the “ balance due Catherine Lentz, $1782 24, as per former settlement of the administrators of (decedent), with interest on said balance for nineteen years, $3813 19.” Catherine Lentz was the acting administratrix of decedent, who died in 1812, and in 1824 had…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
Though the fund, which is the object of this contest, is made by sale of the land of the decedent, under proceedings in partition in the Orphans’ Court, it is liable, in the hands of the administrator, to be applied in payment of the intestate’s debts, not barred by lapse of time; Commonwealth v. Pool, 6 Watts, 32 ; act of 16th July, 1842, Purd. Dig., 484, ed. of 1847; and the only ques*105tion presented for decision, is whether the personal representatives of Catherine Lentz, deceased, are entitled to come in on this fund as creditors ? As the right of subrogation proceeds upon the broad ground…
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