Nathans v. Morris
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL. This was an appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia, made in a certain cause there depending in equity, wherein Margaret Lucretia Nathans, by her husband and next friend, Jacob Nathans, was complainant, and Joseph Morris and Andrew Geyer were defendants.
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APPEAL. This was an appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia, made in a certain cause there depending in equity, wherein Margaret Lucretia Nathans, by her husband and next friend, Jacob Nathans, was complainant, and Joseph Morris and Andrew Geyer were defendants. The bill of the complainant set forth, that by the last will and testament of her late grandfather, Peter Ozeas, dated December 26, 1823, the complainant became entitled to a certain interest in three several ground-rents, therein described, one of two hundred and forty dollars per…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J. —
All the parties, concerned seem, to have been dissatisfied with the decree of the Court below, and each, therefore, has taken an appeal. The trustees, Joseph Morris and Andrew Geyer, think themselves aggrievéd by it, because the claim made by them for compensation for their services in the execution of the trust was partly disallowed. From all that has been shown in regard to this, we are not enabled to say that the sum allowed to the trustees by the decree of the Court, is not a' reasonable cpmpensation for their services rendered, and…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Finney's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
- Duval's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861