Rhoads's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county. This was an appeal by William Z. Rhoads, one of the legatees under the will of Joseph Rhoads, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, dismissing his petition, in which he prayed for a reference of the first account of the executor of the said deceased to an auditor.
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Appeal from tbe Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county. This was an appeal by William Z. Rhoads, one of the legatees under the will of Joseph Rhoads, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, dismissing his petition, in which he prayed for a reference of the first account of the executor of the said deceased to an auditor. The case was this:— Joseph Rhoads died in 1846. By his will he devised his whole estate to his widow, Rebecca Rhoads, for life; remainder to his brothers and sisters and their children, and appointed his widow and Thomas E. Pryor executors. In February 1847, the executors filed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
The Act of the 8th February 1819, under which McGrew’s Appeal, 14 S. & R. 396, and Joseph Walker’s Estate, 2 Rawle 243, were decided, is very different in its terms from the provisions, on the same subject, incorporated into the Acts of 29th March 1832, and of the 14th April 1835.
On the subject of the accounts of executors, administrators and guardians in the 2d section of the former act, it is provided that “where the accounts of guardians, executors, and administrators shall be finally settled according to law, and the same confirmed by…
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