In re Beeder's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
From the Register’s Court of Chester. April 14. The Register having granted letters of administration of the estate of Mary Beeder; John and Nathan Rinehart, administrators of A. Rinehart, appealed to the Register’s Court, averring that Mary Beeder died more than twenty-one years before the letters were granted.
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From the Register’s Court of Chester. April 14. The Register having granted letters of administration of the estate of Mary Beeder; John and Nathan Rinehart, administrators of A. Rinehart, appealed to the Register’s Court, averring that Mary Beeder died more than twenty-one years before the letters were granted. Keech, the administrator, pleaded that the appellants were not interested, and that he had commenced suit against them for money belonging to the estate of Mary Beeder, and obtained an award. The court, overruling this objection, received evidence as to the time of Mary Beeder’s…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
That a mere stranger cannot be permitted to interfere with a subject judicially litigated, is a principle which must lie at the foundation of every well devised system of jurisprudence. Though unnoted, it is of daily, silent operation, and indeed so obvious and familial’, as to require no aid from a formal annunciation. It is, therefore, difficult to find an adjudication, distinctly asserting it, as the point of decision. The cases in which it is incidentally recognised, as an admitted doctrine, are those where the question was, whether, in point of fact, an actor had any interest in the…
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