In re Bieber's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe decree of tbe Register’s Court of Berks county, affirming tbe grant of administration to Jonathan Bieber, and annulling the grant of administration to Isaac L. Bieber.
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Appeal from tbe decree of tbe Register’s Court of Berks county, affirming tbe grant of administration to Jonathan Bieber, and annulling the grant of administration to Isaac L. Bieber. June 19. Margaretta Bieber died intestate on tbe 16th May, 1847, and on tbe 18th of the same month, Jonathan Bieber applied fo.r letters of administration upon her estate, which were granted to him, he having first entered into bond, with two sufficient sureties, and taken the oath required by the act of 15th March, 1832. On the 9th day of June, 1847, Jonathan Bieber filed an inventory of the goods and chattels,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of this court was delivered by
Burnside, J.
This case comes before us on an appeal from the definitive decree of the Register’s Court of Berks county.
In this state an administrator derives his authority from the Register, whose duty it is to grant letters of administration on a proper application of the party authorized by law to receive them: Hood on Executors, 54. The 22d section of the Act of 1832 (Dunlop, 458), declares that, “ whensoever letters of administration are by law necessary, the Register having jurisdiction shall grant *162them, in such form as the case shall require, to…
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