Lukens's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL of Elizabeth H. Lukens from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. On the 27th August 1842, Elizabeth H. Lukens by petition to that court prayed a citation to her late guardian James Paul to settle his accounts.
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APPEAL of Elizabeth H. Lukens from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. On the 27th August 1842, Elizabeth H. Lukens by petition to that court prayed a citation to her late guardian James Paul to settle his accounts. He answered on oath “ that on or about the 17th day of April 1826 he was appointed by this court guardian of the person and estate as well of a certain Sarah Lukens as the said Elizabeth Lukens during their respective minority, and at different times received of Charles Shoemaker, executor of the estate of Joseph Lukens, grandfather of the said Elizabeth, in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
Elizabeth Lukens, the appellant, who was the complainant in the Orphans’ Court, and had been during the latter *59part of her minority the ward of the respondent in this case, attained full age on the 4th April 1838, and on the 12th January 1839 received from him the amount of what he represented to be in his hands and then held as. her guardian, and thereupon signed a release or an acquittance in his favour. This was done in the presence of her father; but it is said that he was rendered incapable at the time, by previous sickness, of advising…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- In re Harland's AccountsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1835
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- Giese's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
- Stanley's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1848
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