Halderman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 123. This was an appeal by Joseph W. Ilalderman, from a decree discharging a rule, granted upon his petition, to show cause why the appointment of C. Snyder as committee in lunacy of the estate of the petitioner, and all acts performed by him as such committee, should not be set aside.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 123. This was an appeal by Joseph W. Ilalderman, from a decree discharging a rule, granted upon his petition, to show cause why the appointment of C. Snyder as committee in lunacy of the estate of the petitioner, and all acts performed by him as such committee, should not be set aside. The facts of the case are fully set forth in the following opinion by the court below (Neale, P. J.), discharging said rule: These proceedings are before the court for consideration upon a petition of Joseph W.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Most of our statutory regulations for proceedings in cases of lunacy, are -taken from the statutes of England. When lunatics came within the jurisdiction of the crown, the king’s title was found by his sheriff or esclieator, assisted by a jury of the county, whose verdict rvas called an inquisition or inquest of office. The ancient mode of proceeding, when it was suggested to the king that a person who had lands was a lunatic, in order to ascertain the existence of the fact of lunacy, was on petition to .the chancellor to issue a writ to the sheriff or escheator of the county, where the…
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