Brown's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1876, No. 67. Appeal of John H. Brown, administrator de bonis non, cum testamento annexo,-of James W. Brown, deceased, from the decree of the court, confirming the report of the auditor and ordering the accountant, John H. Brown, to pay to Mrs. Ellen H. Brown the sum of $8482.74, and to her trustee the sum of $15,470. The essential facts, together with the substance of the rulings of the auditor, John P.…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1876, No. 67. Appeal of John H. Brown, administrator de bonis non, cum testamento annexo,-of James W. Brown, deceased, from the decree of the court, confirming the report of the auditor and ordering the accountant, John H. Brown, to pay to Mrs. Ellen H. Brown the sum of $8482.74, and to her trustee the sum of $15,470. The essential facts, together with the substance of the rulings of the auditor, John P. O’Neill, Esq., will be found stated in the opinion of this court. The opinion of the court in confirming the report of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
In his third assignment, the accountant• alleges that “the court erred in assuming to take jurisdiction of partnership accounts, when one only of four surviving partners was before them.” It was agreed at the argument, on the part of the appellees, that if the adjustment of the decedent’s estate required the adjustment, at the same time, of the aifairs of the partnership of which the decedent and the appellant had been members, the Orphans’ Court was not the proper tribuual to ascertain the responsibilities of the appellant as a partner, or the rights of the estate of the decedent in the…
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