Milligan's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Northampton county: Of January Term 1881, No. 219. This was an appeal by Sarah Milligan, executrix of the estate of Euphemia Dawes, deceased, from the final decree of the said Orphans’ Court, dismissing her exceptions to the report of the auditor of her account as executrix, and confirming the said report.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Northampton county: Of January Term 1881, No. 219. This was an appeal by Sarah Milligan, executrix of the estate of Euphemia Dawes, deceased, from the final decree of the said Orphans’ Court, dismissing her exceptions to the report of the auditor of her account as executrix, and confirming the said report. The facts proved before the auditor were as follows : Mrs. Euphemia'Dawes died July 2d 1872, in her eighty-first year; she had made her will November 17th 1866, whereby she appointed Sarah Milligan her executrix, and bequeathed to her three shares of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
We are called upon in this case to review the rulings of the auditor and court below upon questions of fact. The principal matter of contention was the surcharge of the accountant with |>1500 of United States bonds arid with the coupons and interest thereon. These bonds were shown to have belonged to, and to have been in the possession of the testatrix prior to her death. The auditor, upon what he regarded sufficient evidence, surcharged the accountant with' said bonds, as will appear by the following extract from his report: “ Upon the whole testimony in the case, the conduct of the…
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