M'Carty v. Gordon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Bucks, to remove the record of an action of debt brought by Catharine Gordon, (late Kohl) one of the daughters of George Kohl, deceased, against John M'Carty, one of the sureties in a bond given in the Orphans’ Court of Bucks county, on the 29th of March, 1810, by Jacob Kohl and George Kohl, sons of the said deceased, to whom the real estate of their father was adjudged by the said court, for the distributive…
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Bucks, to remove the record of an action of debt brought by Catharine Gordon, (late Kohl) one of the daughters of George Kohl, deceased, against John M'Carty, one of the sureties in a bond given in the Orphans’ Court of Bucks county, on the 29th of March, 1810, by Jacob Kohl and George Kohl, sons of the said deceased, to whom the real estate of their father was adjudged by the said court, for the distributive share of the plaintiff, in the valuation of her father’s estate. The action was brought to recover that portion which became…
1Opinion of the Court
*328The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J. —
The first, second, third and fourth errors assigned, present but two questions. First, is the bond, upon which this suit is brought, having been taken to secure the payment of that portion coming to the plaintiff below, upon the death of the widow, of the one-third of the valuation-money of the real estate of the intestate, set apart for the widow’s use during her life, as well as the plaintiff’s portion of the other two-thirds thereof, void under the intestate law of 1794? And secondly, seeing the money, sued for here, is made a lien, by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Good v. GoodSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
3Cited by3 opinions
- Gordon v. M'CartySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
- Supplee v. HerrmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
- Mansell's Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1849