Yeatman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’Court of Chester county: Of January Term 1883, No. 246. This was an appeal by John M. Yeatman from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Chester county, dismissing his exceptions to and ordering distribution to be made in accordance with the report of an auditor, appointed to make distribution of the balance in the hands of Wills Passmore, executor of Carlton J. Passmore, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’Court of Chester county: Of January Term 1883, No. 246. This was an appeal by John M. Yeatman from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Chester county, dismissing his exceptions to and ordering distribution to be made in accordance with the report of an auditor, appointed to make distribution of the balance in the hands of Wills Passmore, executor of Carlton J. Passmore, deceased. The facts, as found by the Auditor (John H. Brinton, Esq.), appeared to be as follows : Carlton J. Passmore died in 1881, seised of an estate in Kennett township, consisting of over one hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The appellant held the bond of Carlton J. Passmore, the testator, for the sum of five thousand dollars, which was secured by a mortgage on certain of the real estate of the obligor. Some time after the death of Carlton J. Passmore, his executor and legatee, Wills Passmore, acting under the authority of an order of the Orphans’ Court, sold'the real estate for the payment of debts and legacies.
This sale was confirmed December 12th 1881, and on the 8th of May 1882, the executor paid over to Yeatman the full amount of the principal of his bond, but refused to pay the interest accruing between…
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