Hains's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 185, Oct. T., 1911, by directors of the Poor and House of Employment for the County of Berks, from decree of O; C. Berks Co., Feb. T., 1911, No. 17, dismissing, exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Susanna Hains, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication.
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Appeal, No. 185, Oct. T., 1911, by directors of the Poor and House of Employment for the County of Berks, from decree of O; C. Berks Co., Feb. T., 1911, No. 17, dismissing, exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Susanna Hains, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. From the record it appeared that the directors of the poor claimed $1,160.26 from the proceeds of the decedent’s real estate to reimburse the poor district for the maintenance of the decedent as a pauper during her lifetime. The auditing judge disallowed the claim. The court in an opinion by Bland, P. J., sustained the the…
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Ctjbiam,
The question presented for decision is thus stated by appellant’s counsel: “Whether, where after the death of the pauper the administrator of her estate sells real estate of the pauper for the payment of debts under a decree of the orphans’ court, the poor district can maintain a claim in the orphans’ court to reimburse it for maintenance furnished out of the proceeds of such sale.” This question was fully considered in Stewart’s Estate, 38 Pa. Superior Ct. 177, and decided in the negative. Nothing that has been suggested in the argument leads us to doubt the correctness of that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stewart's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1909