Estate of Snively
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY J. STOUPPER SNIYELY PROM THE ORPHANS* COURT OP PRANKLIN COUNTY. No. 44 May Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given.
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APPEAL BY J. STOUPPER SNIYELY PROM THE ORPHANS* COURT OP PRANKLIN COUNTY. No. 44 May Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On June 22,1886, Irene R. Eby, executrix of the will of Martha J. Snively, deceased, filed her fust and final account, charging herself with $1,806, as the proceeds of real estate sold, and claiming allowance of credits aggregating $1,879.74. The latter sum included a credit for'$1,538 due the accountant upon a recognizance given by the testatrix in an Orphans’ Court partition wherein said real estate had been awarded to her. To this account J.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Chief Justice Paxson :
This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Franklin County, distributing the estate of Martha J. Snively, deceased. The principal question was the effect of the recognizance given by the decedent within a year before her death, for the real estate of her deceased father, awarded to her by the Orphans’ Court under proceedings in partition. The auditor held that inasmuch as the decedent was a married woman when she took said land and gave said recognizance, the recognizance was a lien only upon that portion of the real estate which the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Appeal of McCandlessSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881
3Cited by1 opinion
- Barkley v. AdamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893