Appeal of Cross
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Cheater county: Of January Term 1881. No. 251. Appeal of Anna J. Cross and of A. W. Gault, guardian of Mary E. McCreary, from a decree of the said court confirming the- report of an auditor in the matter of the distribution of the assigned estate of John Y. Woodward.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Cheater county: Of January Term 1881. No. 251. Appeal of Anna J. Cross and of A. W. Gault, guardian of Mary E. McCreary, from a decree of the said court confirming the- report of an auditor in the matter of the distribution of the assigned estate of John Y. Woodward. The facts of the case were as follows : John Y. Woodward was- appointed, in I860, guardian of Anna J. and Mary E. Cross, minors, by the Orphans’ Court of Chester county, without being required to give security. He was at that time the owner of a farm containing about 80 acres. He received…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The money in court for distribution was raised from the sale of the real estate of John Y. Woodward, which he had previously assigned for the benefit of his creditors. This fund was claimed by judgment-creditors to whom it was awarded by the court below ; it was also claimed by the appellants, for whom Woodward had been appointed guardian sometime in the year 1865. Their claim upon the fund arises in this manner: the account of Woodward as guardian was settled in the Orphans’ Court on the 28th June 1880, and he was found to be indebted to the estate of the minors in the sum of $1269.19, which…
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