Springer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Fayette county, confirming the account of the executors of Levi Springer, deceased. The names of the parties do not appear on the paper-books.
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This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Fayette county, confirming the account of the executors of Levi Springer, deceased. The names of the parties do not appear on the paper-books. Levi Springer by his will directed as follows, viz.: “ I do hereby direct all the residue of my real estate lying in the state of Pennsylvania, Ohio and elsewhere, and not herein specifically devised, to be sold, and I do hereby appoint my executors trustees for that purpose, with power to sell and convey the same, at such time and in such portions, divisions and subdivisions, as they shall…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
— This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court, overruling an exception to the auditor’s report upon the account of the executors of the will of Levi Springer, deceased. The exception was that the auditor erred in not charging the accountants with the amount which the testator had paid for two tracts of land, devised by him to be sold, and -which the executors had sold at less price. The auditor found that the lands were sold under a power contained in the will, and that there was no fraud in the sale. These findings were not…
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