Musselman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county; Of May Term 1882, No. 71. This was an appeal by A. C. Musselman, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of John Waugh, deceased, from a decree of said court ordering and directing him to pay the sum of $4,654.80 to Robert Bell, administrator of the estate of James Waugh deceased.
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Appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county; Of May Term 1882, No. 71. This was an appeal by A. C. Musselman, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of John Waugh, deceased, from a decree of said court ordering and directing him to pay the sum of $4,654.80 to Robert Bell, administrator of the estate of James Waugh deceased. Bill in equity, wherein Robert Bell, executor of James Waugh, deceased, and William P. Waugh, John B. Waugh, Mary E. Waugh, and Flora A. Dufphey, children of said James Waugh, were complainants, and A. C. Musselnvan, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of John Waugh,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
We are met at the threshold of this ease with the question of jurisdiction. It is raised both by demurrer and special plea. We may well dispense with the discussion of the regularity of either, as the want of jurisdiction may be taken advantage of at any stage of the cause: Black’s Ex’r v. Black’s Ex’r, 10 Casey 354; Fidelity Trust Co.’s Appeal, 11 W. N. C. 264.
The question is not new. It was squarely decided in Van Dyke’s Appeal, 31 Legal Intelligencer 69; 4 W. N. C. 283. It was there held that where letters testamentary upon the estate of a resident of New Jersey were granted in that state…
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