Est. of Wormley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY MARGARET WORMLEY PROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE PERRY COUNTY. No. 877 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given.
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APPEAL BY MARGARET WORMLEY PROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE PERRY COUNTY. No. 877 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On April 26, 1889, Margaret Wormley and Jacob Rickard, administrators of the estate of Benjamin Wormley, deceased, settled their first account in which they took credit for the payment of $967.45, to said Margaret Wormley, who was the decedent’s widow, on account of a claim for money loaned by her to the decedent, and interest thereon. Exceptions to this credit having been filed, Mr. E. R. Sponsler was appointed auditor to pass thereon. He afterwards…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Green:
It was an entirely undisputed fact, and so found by the learned auditor in the court below, that the appellant received from her father’s estate about $600 in the year 1860, or thereabouts, which went into the hands of her husband, and was kept by him. All the evidence in the case established this fact, and there was not a particle of contradictory proof. The rule of law, applicable in such case, is that the mere fact of the reception of the wife’s money by her husband, makes him her debtor, and it requires no affirmative proof by the wife that he received it as a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Young's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
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