Legal Opinion

Potter's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 19, 1915No. Appeal, No. 482PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal, No. 482, Jan. T., 1914, by Frankie B. Potter, now Frankie B. Clark, from decree of O. C. Lackawanna Co., Series B, No. 222, dismissing exceptions to guardian’s account in Estate of Frankie B. Potter, Minor. Exceptions to final account of W. S. Huslander, guard ian. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions. Frankie B. Potter, now Frankie B. Clarke, appealed. Errors assigned were in dismissing the exceptions.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Brown,

W. L. Potter died intestate in 1897, leaving a widow and one child, who was then eight years of age. Within two weeks from her father’s death W. S. Huslander was appointed her guardian. The deceased was seized at the time of his death of an undivided one-third interest in certain real estate, and, in the latter part of 1904, the appellee presented his petition to the court below, setting forth that an offer had been made to him for the purchase of the interest of his ward in the real estate of her deceased father, for the sum of $1,800 and that the petitioner…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Calhoun's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1837
  2. Nyce's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Kenin's Trust Estate (No. 1)Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  2. Berry v. TollesonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1918
  3. Brooks v. TuckerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1921
  4. Adams v. Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Co.Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · 1936
  5. Cole v. Hunter, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County1933

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