Rittenhouse's Estate
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
This case arose in the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia, on a petition in the nature of a bill of review, not under the Act of Assembly of 1840, but by way of an appeal to the general equity powers of that tribunal. The facts of the case are so fully stated by the Judge in his opinion, when pronouncing the decision of the Court, that no further statement of them is deemed necessary in order to enable the reader fully to understand the subjects in controversy.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the whole Court was delivered by
PaesoNS, Judge. —
This is a petition professing to be in the nature of a bill of review, praying the Court to open an order and decree *314made bj the Orphans’ Court of this county on the 17th of September, 1830, awarding certain real estate to the heirs of Martin Rittenhouse, deceased, in pursuance of a valuation which had been made on a writ of partition previously issued therefrom, and regularly returned.
The facts of the case are briefly these: Martin Rittenhouse died on the 22d of July, 1828, possessed of considerable real estate in this county,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Burr v. SimSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1839
- Rittenhouse v. LeveringSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
- Blanchard v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1837
- Watson v. WatsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1837
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