Legal Opinion

Mays's Estate

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 19, 1904No. Appeal, No. 90PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal, No. 90, April T., 1904, by W. A. Slaugenhaupt, from decree of O. C. Butler Co , May T., 1903, No. 20, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in estate of Francis Mays, deceased. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This is an appeal by an executor from a decree confirming the report of an auditor distributing the fund in his hands. His claim as an individual was allowed in full, and, so far as the record shows, no other creditor or legatee objected in the court below, or is objecting here, to the allowance of the probated claim of Amos Mays; on the contrary, the auditor reported that it was not contested. If they saw fit to waive objection to the mode in which her claim was proved, and the auditor and the court'deemed more formal proof unnecessaiy, we fail to see how the executor was harmed,…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Kittera's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1851
  2. Estate of ClaghornSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  3. Mellon's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1858
  4. Stineman's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1859
  5. Gallagher's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1879

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Hand's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
  2. Wick's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  3. Kyler's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1921

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