McNeel's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
May 2d 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, A&new, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster county: No. 38, to May Term'1871. On the 16th of June 1870, Enos Pennock, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of Lavinia McNeel, late of Lancaster county, deceased, and Priscilla B. Pennock, a legatee under her will, petitioned the Orphans’ Court, setting forth,— That Jemima B. Carpenter, executrix of the said deceased, settled an account of her…
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May 2d 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, A&new, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster county: No. 38, to May Term'1871. On the 16th of June 1870, Enos Pennock, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of Lavinia McNeel, late of Lancaster county, deceased, and Priscilla B. Pennock, a legatee under her will, petitioned the Orphans’ Court, setting forth,— That Jemima B. Carpenter, executrix of the said deceased, settled an account of her administration on the 17th of June 1867, and there are errors in said account as follows:— 1. That the said accountant failed to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Read, J.
Lavinia McNeel, of Lancaster, died in the year 1865, leaving a will which was proved in the register’s office of that county, and letters testamentary were issued to the executrix, Jemima B. Carpenter, a niece of the testatrix, on the 27th of November 1865, who filed an account of deceased’s estate in the said register’s office on the 13th day of May 1867, and the same was confirmed by the Orphans’ Court on the -17th of June 1867, showing a balance due the estate and in the hands of the accountant of $1619.14, which has never been paid or…
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