Little v. Walton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Bucks county. This was an action of assumpsit by Rachel Little (who was widow of Thomas Little, deceased) v. Jacob Walton, administrator of the estate of Samuel Hartley, deceased, who was administrator of the estate of Thomas Little, deceased.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Bucks county. This was an action of assumpsit by Rachel Little (who was widow of Thomas Little, deceased) v. Jacob Walton, administrator of the estate of Samuel Hartley, deceased, who was administrator of the estate of Thomas Little, deceased. Letters of administration were granted to Samuel Hartley upon the estate of Thomas Little, deceased, on the 15th of May, 1832. He died shortly after, and letters of administration on his estate were granted to Cyrus Hartley and Jacob Walton. These administrators filed an account of the administration of Thomas Hartley upon…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
A widow desires to have her share out of the proceeds of her deceased husband’s personal property. To recover it she brings an action against the administrator of her husband’s administrator; and he proves, by way of defence, that he has paid it long ago to the administrator de bonis non of the husband. Was this an answer to the action ? By the 31st section of the act of 1834 it is declared, that administrators de bonis non shall be the proper persons to receive such funds from their predecessors or their legal representatives. It was…
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