In re Beaumont
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This case came before the court upon a certiorari %o the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County. Upon the petition of John T. Neely, setting forth, that John Beaumont, of the County of Bucks, had, “ by reason of old age and long continued sickness, become so far deprived of reason and understanding, as to be wholly unfit and unable to manage his éstate,” and was wasting and destroying the same, the Court of Common Pleas of that County issued a commission in nature of a writ…
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This case came before the court upon a certiorari %o the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County. Upon the petition of John T. Neely, setting forth, that John Beaumont, of the County of Bucks, had, “ by reason of old age and long continued sickness, become so far deprived of reason and understanding, as to be wholly unfit and unable to manage his éstate,” and was wasting and destroying the same, the Court of Common Pleas of that County issued a commission in nature of a writ de lunático inquirendo; upon which the commissioners and jury returned, that “ the said John Beaumont, at the time of…
1Opinion of the Court
Kennedy, X,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case presents but one question, and that is, whether the finding of the inquest shows that John Beaumont was non compos mentis, within the meaning of this phrase or term, as used in the sixth section of the fifth article of the constitution, whereby the Supreme Court, and the several Courts of Common Pleas of this State, among- other things, are “ invested with the power of a Court of Chancery, so far as relates to the care of the persons and estates of those who are non compotes mentis.” On the part of the relator it has been argued, that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wightman v. WightmanNew York Court of Chancery · 1820
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