Hoopes v. Brinton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of York county. James Hoopes and Wife against Jesse Brinton and Mills Hays, executors of John Brinton, deceased. Special verdict, to determine the amount of interest with which the defendants were chargeable upon the settlement of their administration account of the estate of John Brinton, deceased.
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ERROR to the common pleas of York county. James Hoopes and Wife against Jesse Brinton and Mills Hays, executors of John Brinton, deceased. Special verdict, to determine the amount of interest with which the defendants were chargeable upon the settlement of their administration account of the estate of John Brinton, deceased. The only material facts were, that the defendants, on the 5th of March, 1836, settled their account; on the 13th of April 1836, it was excepted to by the plaintiffs: on the 1st of August 1S36, it was referred to auditors, who, on the 5th of April 1S37, reported a balance…
1Per curiam
The fund did not bear interest in the hands of the accountant during the pendency of the report in the orphans’ court on exceptions, because it could not be paid over before final confirmation, or consequently be said to have been vexatiously detained. Besides, the case is, in other respects, like the verdict of a jury during the pendency of a motion for a new trial, on which, if .the motion be denied, there is judgment for the principal and interest previously found without regard to the intervening time', ■interest ought therefore to have been‘decreed from the final confirmation.
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