Case of Keyzey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
appeal. This was an appeal by John Keyzey, junior, who was executor of the last will and testament of John Keyzey, senior, deceased, from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Franklin county, on a settlement of his administration accounts. The testator, John Keysey, senior, died seised of a tract of un-patented land, ofabout200 acres, which was originally part of a larger tract of 400 acres, for which, in the year 1755, a warrant had issued to Alexander Lowry.
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appeal. This was an appeal by John Keyzey, junior, who was executor of the last will and testament of John Keyzey, senior, deceased, from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Franklin county, on a settlement of his administration accounts. The testator, John Keysey, senior, died seised of a tract of un-patented land, ofabout200 acres, which was originally part of a larger tract of 400 acres, for which, in the year 1755, a warrant had issued to Alexander Lowry. J. Keyzey, senior, by his will, devised this tract of land to his son J. Keyzey, junior, after the decease of his widow, and appointed…
1Opinion of the Court
■ The opinion of the court was delivered by
TilghmaN, C. J. This case comes before us on an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Franklin county, on the settlement of the administration account of John Keyzey, junior, who was executor of the last will and testament of his father, John Key-zey, deceased.
The matter in dispute is confined to a single item of the account, and depends on the question, whether the executor, who was the devisee of a tract of unpatented land belonging to the testator, had a right to apply the personal estate, to the payment of the sum of $267 75, which was…
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