Fretz's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court, The case was argued by
1Opinion of the Court
*434The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
— Catharine Swartz died in Montgomery county at some time between 1833 and 1835, but I cannot find the precise time in the paper-book. At her funeral, Isaac Benner, who appears to have been a son-in-law of the deceased, told her son Andrew Swartz, as he swears, that the deceased had given him (Benner) all her papers, bonds, and money, to divide amongst her heirs. After some talk, and on Benner’s refusing absolutely to administer, Andrew Swartz administered, and on the 12th, of April 1836 filed an account in which he showed payments of $425.20…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wimmer's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1836
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