Legal Opinion

Estate of Amanda M. Miles

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 22, 1928No. Appeal 57Published

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

We are obliged to quash this appeal for want of a proper appellant. We held in In re Harrisburg Trust Co., 80 Pa. Superior Ct. 585, that an appeal taken in the name of an estate is improperly taken and will be quashed. No one but an executor or administrator can appeal on behalf of the estate of a deceased person. No letters testamentary, or of administration, appear to have been taken out in the Estate of Sarah P. Lefferts, deceased. If the other parties, on whose behalf this appeal appears to have been jointly taken by their attorney, have individual interests affected…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Comfort v. MatherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1841
  2. In re Harrisburg Trust Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1923

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