Appeal of Halsey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL FROM THE DECREE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. No. 116 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct. The final account of Philip F. Stier, as committee of the person and estate of Eli Siegfried, a lunatic, having been filed and exceptions made thereto by G. L. Halsey, the administrator of the lunatic, then deceased, and by Catharine Siegfried, widow, and Albert Siegfried, a son, Mr. Aaron Goldsmith, appointed auditor to hear and determine the exceptions and to…
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APPEAL FROM THE DECREE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. No. 116 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct. The final account of Philip F. Stier, as committee of the person and estate of Eli Siegfried, a lunatic, having been filed and exceptions made thereto by G. L. Halsey, the administrator of the lunatic, then deceased, and by Catharine Siegfried, widow, and Albert Siegfried, a son, Mr. Aaron Goldsmith, appointed auditor to hear and determine the exceptions and to report distribution, found the following facts : Eli Siegfried, the deceased lunatic, was declared of unsound mind by an…
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Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Gordon :
The assignments of error in this case cannot be sustained. Philip F. Stier was but the officer of the Court of Common Pleas, and all he did was done under the order and sanction of that court; neither can he be punished for its errors if, indeed, any such there were. The commission of lunacy, acting in accordance with the law of the commonwealth, not only found the fact of Eh Siegfried’s unsoundness of mind, but also the persons, nominatim, composing his family, and the maintenance ordered was for this lunatic and this his family. Whether that family was…
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