Cressman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. This was an appeal by Elizabeth Cressman from the decree of the Orphans’ Court on the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the balance in the hands of William M. Lukens, administrator of the estate of Levi J. Cressman, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. This was an appeal by Elizabeth Cressman from the decree of the Orphans’ Court on the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the balance in the hands of William M. Lukens, administrator of the estate of Levi J. Cressman, deceased. The case was this: — Levi J. Cressman, son of the appellant, died in the month of August, A. d. 1854, leaving surviving him, his mother, who was a widow, and several brothers and sisters, most of them minors. Letters of administration on his estate were granted to William -M. Lukens, who, on the 29th day df…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, March 10th 1862, by
Read, J.
The doctrine applicable to this case was discussed in In Re Painter’s Estate,, 16 Leg. Int. 76, and to the cases there cited may be added Scales v. Maude, 25 Law J. R., N. J. (Chanc.) 433, decided by Lord Chancellor Cranworth, who had joined in the judgment in Kekewich v. Manning, 12 Eng. L. & Eq. Rep. 120, as one of the lords justices. There letters by a mortgagee to defendants, beneficially interested in the equity of redemption, promising that her executors should cancel the mortgage, and containing words of gift, were held…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Delamater's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1836
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- Kydd TrustPennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1948
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