Allam's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 122, Jan. T., 1901, by Charles Weston & Son, from decree of O. C. Northampton Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in the estate of John Stewart Allam, deceased. Exceptions to auditor’s report.
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Appeal, No. 122, Jan. T., 1901, by Charles Weston & Son, from decree of O. C. Northampton Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in the estate of John Stewart Allam, deceased. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The material portion of the report of H. J. Steel, Esq., auditor, was as follows: Nearly all the remaining items objected to upon the credit side of the account raise but a single question, whether the administrator of an estate, such as this, has the right to complete the unfinished contracts of the decedent ? Under the peculiar facts of this case this is a question of no little…
1Opinion of the Court
Per, Ctjriam,
The auditor’s findings of fact and conclusions of law appear in his report. The exceptions taken to the report were care*588fully examined by the president judge who upon due consideration dismissed the exceptions and affirmed the report. It is at least a fair inference from his inspection of the report and the exceptions filed to it that he failed to discover any error in either of them. His unqualified approval of the report and his dismissal of the exceptions shows that he regarded the work of the auditor as a complete and satisfactory answer to the claim made by the appellant. To…
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