Bailey's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 335, Jan. T., 1912, by Commonwealth, of Pennsylvania, from decree of O. C. Blair Co., 1911, No. 403, dismissing bill of review In re Estate of Cyrus W. Bailey, late of Altoona City, Blair County, Pennsylvania, deceased. Petition to open, review and set aside confirmation of auditor’s report. Before Baldridge, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts.
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Appeal, No. 335, Jan. T., 1912, by Commonwealth, of Pennsylvania, from decree of O. C. Blair Co., 1911, No. 403, dismissing bill of review In re Estate of Cyrus W. Bailey, late of Altoona City, Blair County, Pennsylvania, deceased. Petition to open, review and set aside confirmation of auditor’s report. Before Baldridge, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The Orphans’ Court made a decree dismissing the petition of the auditor general to open, review and set aside the confirmation of an auditor’s report, awarding distribution of a fund in the hands of an administrator.…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This appeal is from an order of the Orphans’ Court dismissing a petition by the auditor general to open, review and set aside the confirmation of an auditor’s report, awarding distribution of a fund in the hands of an administrator. It is alleged in the petition that there was error in allowing the administrator credit for the amount he paid the person who first informed the auditor general of the fact of an escheat and procured the evidence to substantiate it.
Cyrus W. Bailey died in 1895 intestate and without known heirs or kindred. In the same year letters of administration were…
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